Diagram in papers for Commercium Epistolicum
Date
After 1668
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p43
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 309mm
width (page): 194mm
width (page): 194mm
Description
Extracts from James Gregorie's letters.
This volume contains the letters and papers of John Collins (1625-1683), which came into the possession of William Jones (1675-1749), who used them in Commercium Epistolicum, designed to prove Isaac Newton’s priority over Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the invention of fluxions.
The original letters were sealed up at the order of the Royal Society's council (25 October 1714) and stored in an iron chest. Further letters used in the 1722 edition of Commercium Epistolicum must have been added and stored with the original papers. These were ordered on 13 September 1737 to be ‘taken out of the Iron Chest’ and entrusted to Jones, who was asked to paste them into a guard-book in one volume (CMO/2/252, CMO/3/73).
For Newton's review of Commercium Epsitolicum, see Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 29, no. 342 (January and February 1715), pp. 173-224.
This volume contains the letters and papers of John Collins (1625-1683), which came into the possession of William Jones (1675-1749), who used them in Commercium Epistolicum, designed to prove Isaac Newton’s priority over Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the invention of fluxions.
The original letters were sealed up at the order of the Royal Society's council (25 October 1714) and stored in an iron chest. Further letters used in the 1722 edition of Commercium Epistolicum must have been added and stored with the original papers. These were ordered on 13 September 1737 to be ‘taken out of the Iron Chest’ and entrusted to Jones, who was asked to paste them into a guard-book in one volume (CMO/2/252, CMO/3/73).
For Newton's review of Commercium Epsitolicum, see Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 29, no. 342 (January and February 1715), pp. 173-224.
Transcription
Endorsed 'No. 46: p. 127, 128 Commerc. Epist. Edit. 1722. Extracts from Mr Gregories Letters To be sent to Monsr Leibnitz to peruse who is desired to returne the same to you.'
Mr Gregory about Midsummer 1668 arriving here from Italy imparted the following Paper as fitt to have been added to his Books intitled Geometriae pars - Universalis
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Mr Gregory about Midsummer 1668 arriving here from Italy imparted the following Paper as fitt to have been added to his Books intitled Geometriae pars - Universalis
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Object history
Mentioned (without diagrams) in Commercium Epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum De analysi promota (London: Typis Pearsonianis, 1712), pp. 46-47; Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum de analysi promota (London: J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1722), pp. 127-28.
Related fellows
James Gregorie (1638 - 1675, Scottish) , Mathematician