RefNo | AP/29/2 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished paper, 'A comparison of the first and second editions of the "Commercium Epistolicum D Johannis Collins et aliorum de analysi promota' by A [Augustus] de Morgan |
Creator | Morgan; Augustus de (1806-1871); British mathematician; logician; Professor of Mathematics at University College London |
Date | 23 November 1846 |
Description | De Morgan presents a series of observations on a collection of correspondence highlighting a dispute between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton over the invention of calculus, or the method of fluxions.
Marked on front as 'Returned to the author for some additions, at his request, and finally received Jan 11 1847 C R W' and ' 'Archives 20 Jan 1848 S H C [Samuel Hunter Christie]'.
Subject: Mathematics / Calculus
Received 14 November 1846 / 11 January 1847 / 14 January 1847.
A version of this paper was published by de Morgan in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science: Prof. De Morgan. 'On the additions made to the second edition of the Commercium Epistolicum.' The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, volume 32, number 217 (1848), pp. 446-456. |
Extent | 14p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1080/14786444808646019 |
RelatedRecord | MC/4/160 |
RR/1/5 7 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8450 | Leibniz; Gottfried Wilhelm von (1646 - 1716); mathematician and natural philosopher | 1646 - 1716 |
NA8414 | Newton; Sir; Isaac (1642 - 1727); natural philosopher and mathematician | 1642 - 1727 |