Janus: The Portsmouth Collection

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007 contains:
MS Add.3958	Early Papers by Newton
MS Add.3959	Elementary Mathematics
MS Add.3960	Fluxions
MS Add.3961	Enumeration of Lines of the Third Order
MS Add.3962	On the Quadrature of Curves
MS Add.3963	Papers Relating to Geometry
MS Add.3964	Miscellaneous Mathematical Subjects
MS Add.3965	Papers Connected with the Principia (mostly holograph)
MS Add.3966	Papers Connected with the Principia on Lunar Theory
MS Add.3967	Papers Connected with the Principia - Mathematical Problems
MS Add.3968	Papers Relating to the dispute Respecting the Invention of Fluxions
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The Portsmouth Collection

Title	Miscellaneous Mathematical Subjects
Reference	MS Add.3964
Covering Dates	c 1665-c 1727

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Mathematics

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.3964 contains:

Add.3964.1: 1-4

Problemata numeralia.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.4 [folio]; paper.

c 1700-c 1727

Add.3964.2: 5-6

Arithmetica universalis. A chapter on the limits of the roots of equations. See p.184 of the Leyden edition of the Arithmetica universalis.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1700-c 1727

Add.3964.3: 7-20

De serierum propietatibus.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.14 [folio]; paper.

c 1700-c 1727

Add.3964.4: 21

On Quadrature by Ordinates.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [folio]; paper.

c 1700-c 1727

Add.3964.5: 1-4

Regula differentiarum etc. Plus negative copy.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.4 [folio]; paper.

c 1700-c 1727

Add.3964.6: 5-6

Bernouilli's problem on drawing lines cutting a series of curves according to any given law. 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.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1698-c 1699

Add.3964.7: 7-10

Errata in Dr Barrow's Conicks and in his Archimedes, with a letter to Newton about the latter errata.
Creator: Collins, John, 1626-1683, mathematician and scientific administrator.
ff.4 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1683

Add.3964.8: 11-30

Miscellaneous Calculations.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.20 [mixed]; paper.

c 1700-c 1727