Diagram in papers for Commercium Epistolicum
Date
21 June 1677
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Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p5
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Dimensions
height (page): 193mm
width (page): 164mm
width (page): 164mm
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Description
The original letter sent by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to Henry Oldenburg dated 21 June 1677, written by an amanuensis, with corrections in Leibniz's hand. The diagrams show Leibniz's method of tangents and inverse method of tangents, i.e. differential and integral calculus.
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. 66: p. 191' [reference to the 1722 edition of Commercium Epistolicum].
'Leibnitz's Letter in answer to Dr Newtons large one of 21 June 1677'
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'Leibnitz's Letter in answer to Dr Newtons large one of 21 June 1677'
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Figure printed in Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum de analysi promota (London: J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1722), p. 197.
Related fellows
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716, German) , Natural philosopher
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716, German) , Natural philosopher
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