Diagrams in papers for Commercium Epistolicum
Date
1 September 1676
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p3
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Dimensions
height (page): 317mm
width (page): 202mm
width (page): 202mm
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Description
Figures in John Collins's copy of Ehrenfried de Tschirnhaus's letter to Henry Oldenburg, dated 1 September 1676, Paris. An extract of this letter, without the figures, was printed in Commercium Epistolicum (1712, 1722), compiled to prove Isaac Newton’s priority over Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the invention of calculus.
These figures are based on John Wallis's discussion of dividing the periphery of a circle into equal parts, and giving equations suitable to both an even and uneven number of divisions (printed in Treatise of angular sections (1684)). Similar ideas were discussed in James Gregory, Geometriae pars universalis (1668).
These figures are based on John Wallis's discussion of dividing the periphery of a circle into equal parts, and giving equations suitable to both an even and uneven number of divisions (printed in Treatise of angular sections (1684)). Similar ideas were discussed in James Gregory, Geometriae pars universalis (1668).
Transcription
Endorsed 'No. 54: p. 157'.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Extract (without the diagrams) printed in Commercium Epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum De analysi promota (London: Typis Pearsonianis, 1712), p. 66; Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum de analysi promota (London: J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1722), pp. 141-42.
Related fellows
James Gregorie (1638 - 1675, Scottish) , Mathematician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
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