Diagram in papers for Commercium Epistolicum
Date
11 August 1676
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Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p2
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Dimensions
height (page): 311mm
width (page): 207mm
width (page): 207mm
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Description
Diagram from a letter by John Collins to David Gregory, elder brother of James Gregorie, dated 11 August 1676.
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. 47: p. 129' [reference to the 1722 edition of Commercium Epistolicum].
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Object history
Extract (without the diagram) printed in Commercium Epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum De analysi promota (London: Typis Pearsonianis, 1712), pp. 47-48; Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum de analysi promota (London: J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1722), pp. 129-30.
Related fellows
James Gregorie (1638 - 1675, Scottish) , Mathematician
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
David Gregory (1659 - 1708, British) , Astronomer, Astronomer
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
David Gregory (1659 - 1708, British) , Astronomer, Astronomer
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