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The Portsmouth Collection
| Title |
Papers Relating to the dispute Respecting the Invention of Fluxions |
| Reference |
MS Add.3968 |
| Covering Dates |
1665–1727 |
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| Index Terms |
| Calculus |
| Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.3968 contains: |
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Add.3968.1: 1-2
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Apographum schediasmatis a Newtono olim scripti .
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper. |
13 November 1665 |
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Add.3968.2: 3-9
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Printed Title-page of the first Edition of the Commercium Epistolicum. With proposed corrections to the title for the 2nd Edition.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.7 [mixed]; paper; Printed. |
1712 |
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Add.3968.3: 10-13
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Notes on the Correspondence in Wallis's Works, Vol. 3.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.13 [folio]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1712 |
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Add.3968.4: 14-19
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Notae ad Acta Eruditorum.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.6 [folio]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1712 |
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Add.3968.5: 20-36
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Rough drafts of the Leibnitz Scholium in the 2nd Edition of the Principia, and proposed additions to it.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.17 [folio]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1712 |
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Add.3968.6: 37-56
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Enarratio plenior scholii praecedentis.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.20 [folio]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1712 |
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Add.3968.7: 57-66
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Mens Scholii praecedentis.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.10 [folio]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1712 |
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Add.3968.8: 67-96
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An account of the Commercium Epistolicum. Various different drafts.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.22 [folio]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1712 |
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Add.3968.9: 97-112
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Papers relating to the origin of the dispute.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.16 [folio]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1712 |
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Add.3968.10: 113-144
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Collations for the History of the Infinitesimal Analysis.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.32 [folio]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1712 |
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Add.3968.11: 145
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Fragment of "An account of the Differential Method from the year 1677 inclusively".
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [folio]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1712 |
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Add.3968.12: 146-172
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History of the Method of Fluxions. Several copies with varying titles.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.27 [folio]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1712 |
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Add.3968.13: 173-235
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Historia methodi infinitesimalis. Several varying copies. Also corrigenda to "Account of the Commercium Epistolicum" (i.e. the English "Recensio") published in Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 29. (1714 - 1716), pp. 173-224.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.63 [mixed]; paper. |
c 1715 |
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Add.3968.14: 236-252
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Annotations in Commercium Epistolicum.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.19 [mixed]; paper. |
c 1715-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.15: 253-254
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Appendix Containing Newton's Proofs of his Priority.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.16: 255-256
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Newton's statement of the case in dispute between Leibnitz and himself.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.17: 257
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Draft of Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to the Editor of Memoirs of Literature. Not published in Memoirs of Literature.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [folio]; paper. |
17 May 1712 |
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Add.3968.18: 258-262
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Copy in Newton's hand of Leibnitz's letter to Hans Sloane.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.5 [latin]; paper. |
c 1715 |
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Add.3968.19: 263-295
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References to the original letters contained, or intended to be contained, in the Commercium Epistolicum.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.39 [mixed]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.20: 296-311
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Latin translation of the "Account of the Commercium Epistolicum" (i.e. the English "Recensio") in Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 29. (1714 - 1716), pp. 173-224. The translation differs from that in the second edition of the Commercium Epistolicum.
ff.18 [folio]; paper. |
c 1715 |
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Add.3968.21: 312-332
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'Ad Lectorem' prefixed to the second edition of the Commercium epistolicum. Several drafts.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.21 [folio]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.22: 333-338
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Copy of a letter from John Keill to Hans Sloane.
ff.6 [folio]; paper. |
c 1715 |
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Add.3968.23: 339-367
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Copy of a French translation of a letter from John Keill to John Bernouilli. With some notes in Newton's hand.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.29 [mixed]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.24: 368
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Extract from a letter from Leibnitz complaining of an attack on his "bonne foi".
Creator: Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1646-1716.
f.1 [octavo]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.25: 369-371
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Bernouilli's problem in the Acta Eruditorum for October 1698. With some notes by Newton.
Creator: Bernard, Edward, 1638-1697, mathematician and Arabist.
ff.3 [folio]; paper. |
1698 |
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Add.3968.26: 372-382
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Historical Annotations on the Elogium of Leibnitz.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.11 [folio]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1727 |
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Add.3968.27: 383-411
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Several drafts of letters of Newton to Des Maizeaux after the death of Leibnitz.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.29 [folio]; paper. |
c 1716-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.28: 412-419
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Remarks on Leibnitz's first letter to the Abbe Conti.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.8 [folio]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.29: 420-437
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Draft letter from Sir Isaac Newton to Pierre des Maizeaux. Contains proposed additions to the "Remarks" on Leibnitz's second Letter to the Abbe Conti (see Des Maizeaux, Vol. 2, pp. 82-106.).
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.18 [folio]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.30 438-444
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Draft letter from Sir Isaac Newton probably to John Chamberlayne, defending Keill. Also a copy in Newton's hand of an English translation of Leibnitz's letter to Chamberlayne.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.6 [folio]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.31: 445-459
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Copy by Sir Isaac Newton Newton of Leibnitz's letter to Pierre Rémond De Monmort. Also a draft of Newton's 'Observations' printed in Joseph's Raphson, "History of Fluxions" (1715), p.111.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.15 [folio]; paper. |
c 1716 |
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Add.3968.32: 460-464
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Newton's observations on the Synopsis given in the Leipzig Acts of Jones's "Analysis per quantiatum Series" (London, 1711).
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.5 [folio]; paper. |
c 1711-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.33: 465-472
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Animadversions on Pierre Rémond de Monmort's letter to Nicholas Bernouilli (20 August 1713). Letter printed in the second edition of Monmort's "Analysis upon the play of Hazard" (Paris, 1713).
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.8 [folio]; paper. |
c 1713 |
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Add.3968.34: 473-486
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Printed Copy of a Letter from John Bernoulli to Sir Isaac Newton, with Newton's Observations on it.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.14 [mixed]; paper. |
c 1713 |
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Add.3968.35: 487-504
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Extract from Bernoulli's letter of 7 June 1713, with Newton's Observations on it.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.18 [folio]; paper. |
c 1713-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.36: 505-538
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Contents of Des Maizeaux's'Recueil' and copies of some letters published therein.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.34 [folio]; paper. |
c 1720-c 1727 |
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Add.3968.37: 539-555
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Several Drafts of an Intended Preface to the Commercium Epistolicum.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.17 [folio]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.38: 558-574
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Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to the Abbe Conti in reply to the Postscript of Leibniz to the same. The letter refers to the first Postscript given in Des Maizeaux.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.17 [folio]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1727 |
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Add.3968.39: 575-792
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Draft of part of the "Account of the Commercium Epistolicum" (i.e. the English "Recensio") for Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 29. (1714 - 1716), pp. 173-224.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.18 [folio]; paper. |
c 1714 |
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Add.3968.40: 593
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Errata for Raphson's History of Fluxions.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [quarto]; paper. |
c 1710-c 1720 |
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Add.3968.41: 1-159
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Unarranged fragments, mostly relating to the dispute with Leibniz. f.1 is in the hand of John Collins, most of the rest is in Newton's hand.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.159 [mixed]; paper. |
c 1665-c 1727 |
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Add.3968.42: 594-619
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Draft letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Pierre Varignon and others. Relating to Bernoulli's letter of 7 June 1713.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.26 [folio]; paper. |
c 1713-c 1720 |
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