| RefNo | MS/81/1 |
| Previous numbers | MS 81.1a |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter, from Isaac Barrow to John Collins, dated at Trinity College Cambridge |
| Date | 20 July 1669 |
| Description | Sends Collins parts of his lectures on optics to collate together. [Note this would become Barrow's Lectiones Opticae & Geometricae (1669;1674;1685)]
Will soon send manuscript "methods of calculating the dimensions of magnitudes & that of Mercator concerning the hyperbola ... as also of resolving equations" from "a friend of mine here" [Isaac Newton].
Postscriptum notes that Barrow refuses to benefit financially from printing the optics, and has refused a considerable sum of money for it but expects [bookseller Octavian] Pulleyn to "observe conditions" to expedite the printing.
Annotated at the back in different hand: "Manuscripts sent to Collins by Mr Barrow July 20 1669" and top right corner "N.1 p.65. Commerc. Epist. Edit 1722" followed by "578"
Last paragraph referring to Newton printed as letter no.1, unpaginated B in first edition (1712) of Commercium Epistolicum and p. 65 of second edition (1722) |
| Extent | 2pp. |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7960 | Barrow; Isaac (1630 - 1677); mathematician and theologian | 1630 - 1677 |
| NA2898 | Collins; John (1625 - 1683); mathematician and scientific administrator | 1625 - 1683 |