| RefNo | MS/81/19 |
| Previous numbers | MS 81.16 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter, from [Isaac] Newton to John Collins, dated at Cambridge |
| Date | 10 December 1672 |
| Description | Sent to Collins at Mr William Austin's house over against the Adam and Eve in Petty France in Westminster.
Thanks Collins for sending [Jeremiah] Horrox's works. Happy to hear that [Isaac] Barrow's lectures are well received by foreign mathematicians, and that they agree with his method of drawing tangents and offers an additional corrolary of the method, including figure and equations. Positions his method as different from [Gottfried Leibniz] "method de maximis & minimis" and [René-François de] Sluse's method of tangents. Mentions that [William?] Jones and Barrow were aware of his method and had offered to print it. Begs Collins in the postscriptum to send Sluse's method of tangent as soon as it is published.
The full letter has been underlined in red to denote inclusion in the printed Commercium Epistolicum.
Pencil sums on the verso.
Different hand endorsed 'No 26: p. 104 to note that the letter was printed in 'Commercium Epistolicum' 1722 edition, page 104, paragraph XXVI.
Numbered 11; 16 at the end. |
| Extent | 2pp. |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and pencil on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8414 | Newton; Sir; Isaac (1642 - 1727); natural philosopher and mathematician | 1642 - 1727 |
| NA2898 | Collins; John (1625 - 1683); mathematician and scientific administrator | 1625 - 1683 |