Janus: The Portsmouth Collection

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007 contains:
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MS Add.3968	Papers Relating to the dispute Respecting the Invention of Fluxions
MS Add.3969	Astronomy
MS Add.3970	Hydrostatics, Optics, Sound and Heat
MS Add.3971	Miscellaneous Copies of Letters and Papers
MS Add.3972	Papers on Finding the Longtitude at Sea
MS Add.3973	Notes of Experiments, all in Newton's Hand
MS Add.3974	Miscellaneous Notes
MS Add.3975	A Manuscript Note-book
MS Add.3976	Correspondence with Oldenburg
MS Add.3977	Correspondence with Collins and Wallis
MS Add.3978	Letters from Arthur Storer to Dr Babington and to Newton
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Title	Fluxions
Reference	MS Add.3960
Covering Dates	c 1665-c 1700

Content and context

Papers on infinite series, curves and fluxions, in the hands of Newton and two others.

Index Terms

Calculus

Mathematics

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.3960 contains:

Add.3960.1: 1-61

Transcript of a Tract on Fluxions said to have been written by Newton. MISSING.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
paper.

November 1666

Add.3960.2: 1-24

Tract on the History of Fluxions. Copy of a tract probably by William Jones.
Creator: Jones, William (1675-1749) mathematician.
ff.12 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700-c 1749

Add.3960.3: 1-32

Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.16 [quarto]; paper.

c 1665-c 1700

Add.3960.4: 33-48

Unpublished Appendix to 'methodus': Problem IX. Follows on from Add. 3960.14: 110, line 27.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.8 [quarto]; paper.

1671

Add.3960.5: 49-70

Some Propositions in Fluxions.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
pp.10 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1700

Add.3960.6: 71-94

Analysis per quantitates fluentes et earum momenta.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.11 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1700

Add.3960.7: 93-136

Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series. pp.93-94 MISSING.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.22 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1700

Add.3960.8: 137-160

Drafts of an unpublished Prop. Cas. 7 of 'De quadratura curvarum'.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.12 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1700

Add.3960.9: 161-164

A Fragment that goes with Add.3960.11: 193/195.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1700

Add.3960.10:165-180

Propositions in the Method of Fluxions.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.8 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1700

Add.3960.11:181-196

Propositions in Fluxions.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.8 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1700

Add.3960.12: 197-206

Early Paper on Fluxions. pp.97-98 contain unrelated notes from the mid 1670s.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.5 [folio]; paper.

May 1665-c 1700

Add.3960.13: 207-228

Fragments on Fluxions.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.12 [mostly folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1700

Add.3960.14: 3-265

Method of Curves and Infinite Series, and application to the Geometry of Curves.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.131 [quarto]; paper.

c 1665-c 1700