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RefNoMS/81/11
Previous numbersMS 81.8
LevelItem
TitleLetter from [James] Gregorie to John Collins, dated at St Andrews
Date19 December 1670
DescriptionReferring to previous letter Gregorie underlines the value of [Isaac] Newton's series, underlines its novelty, the paragraph is underlined in red and annotated with quotation marks in the margins.
Corrects his error in a logarithmic problem shared previously and adds in a postscriptum a method related to logarithmic curve.

Annotated in Collins' hand on the last page: "Series for the Area of a Zone of a curve and hyperbola, for the number of a [logarithm], a method of strengthening the [logarithmic] curve. December 19 1669."

In different hand annotated at the top right corner of the first page, 'No. 18: p. 96' referring to the inclusion of the opening passages related to Newton in 'Commercium Epistolicum' 1722 edition, page 96, paragraph XVIII.
LanguageLatin
Extent2pp.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8395Gregorie; James (1638 - 1675); mathematician1638 - 1675
NA2898Collins; John (1625 - 1683); mathematician and scientific administrator1625 - 1683
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