Janus: The Portsmouth Collection

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.3964 contains:
Add.3964.1: 1-4	Problemata numeralia
Add.3964.2: 5-6	Arithmetica universalis
Add.3964.3: 7-20	De serierum propietatibus
Add.3964.4: 21	On Quadrature by Ordinates
Add.3964.5: 1-4	Regula differentiarum etc.
Add.3964.6: 5-6	Bernouilli's problem on drawing lines cutting a series of curves according to any given law
Add.3964.7: 7-10	Errata in Dr Barrow's Conicks and in his Archimedes, with a letter to Newton about the latter errata
Add.3964.8: 11-30	Miscellaneous Calculations

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Title	Bernouilli's problem on drawing lines cutting a series of curves according to any given law
Reference	MS Add.3964.6: 5-6
Creator	Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician
Covering Dates	c 1698-c 1699
Extent and Medium	ff.2 [folio]; paper

Content and context

Draft letter by Newton in response to "Eiusdem annotata in solutiones fraternas problematum quorundam suordam, editas proximo Acotorym Majo", by John Bernouilli in "Acta eruditorum", October 1698.

Index Terms

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician

Bernoulli, Johann (1667-1748) mathematician

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