| RefNo | MS/81/24 |
| Previous numbers | MS 81.21 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Draft letter, from [Henry Oldenburg] to [Gottfried] Leibniz, dated in London |
| Date | 8 December 1674 |
| Description | Heavily corrected draft of a letter in Oldenburg's hand.
Requests the mathematical instrument devised by Leibniz to present it at the Royal Society. In response to the previous letter, remarks on Jacques Ozanam's plan to publish Diophantus, as redudant with Kesey's recent publication in English and mentions that [James] Gregory has already advanced Femat's theorem. Comments on Leibniz's proposed calculus method on the measurement of cures as "fine" but the method has already been superceded by Gregory and Isaac Newton. This passage is underlined in red to denote its inclusion in the printed 'Commercium Epistolicum' 1722 edition, page 116, paragraph XXXIV.
Sharing news from mathematicians in England, including Daniel Coxe's experiments with alkaline and spirits printed in the Philosophical Transactions which Oldenburg is sending via [Christian Albert] Walter to Leibniz.
[Robert] Boyle's upcoming publications on air, the preservation of bodies in vacuum; metals. [Robert] Hooke has recently designed a new astronmical quadrant.
Endorsed 'No. 34: p. 116' at the top of the first page, n.24 inscribed in pencil at the back. |
| Language | Latin |
| Extent | 2pp. |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink; paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | Final version in Hannover Mss, f. 24
Original printed as letter 2576 in Hall & Hall, "The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, vol. XI", pp.139-142 |
| RelatedRecord | MS/81/23 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8001 | Oldenburg; Henry (c 1619 - 1677); natural philosopher and scientific correspondent | c 1619 - 1677 |
| NA8450 | Leibniz; Gottfried Wilhelm von (1646 - 1716); mathematician and natural philosopher | 1646 - 1716 |