| RefNo | MS/81/11 |
| Previous numbers | MS 81.8 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from [James] Gregorie to John Collins, dated at St Andrews |
| Date | 19 December 1670 |
| Description | Referring 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. |
| Language | Latin |
| Extent | 2pp. |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8395 | Gregorie; James (1638 - 1675); mathematician | 1638 - 1675 |
| NA2898 | Collins; John (1625 - 1683); mathematician and scientific administrator | 1625 - 1683 |