Diagram in papers for Commercium Epistolicum
Date
31 July 1669
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p8r
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 200mm
width (page): 160mm
width (page): 160mm
Subject
Description
Figure in a letter from Isaac Barrow to John Collins, dated 31 July 1669.
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 (calculus).
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).
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 (calculus).
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).
Transcription
De Analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Diagram printed in Commercium Epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum De analysi promota (London: Typis Pearsonianis, 1712), p. 18; Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum de analysi promota (London: J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1722), p. 89.
Related fellows
Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677, British) , Classical and Mathematical Scholar, Mathematician
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
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