Janus: The Portsmouth Collection

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007 contains:
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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
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
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Title	Miscellaneous Copies of Letters and Papers
Reference	MS Add.3971
Covering Dates	c 1722

Content and context

Transcripts of mathematical and astronomical letters and papers, apparently made for the use of Isaac Newton, in various hands. Included are copies of works by R.F. Slusius, Antonio Monforte, Jacques Ozanam, G.W. Leibnitz, E.W. von Tschirnhaus, Henry Oldenburg, T.F. de Lagny, G.D. Cassini, John Craig and S. Morland.

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.3971 contains:

Add.3971.1: 1-38

Copies of Letters from Leibnitz, Slusius etc. to Oldenburg.
ff.38 [mixed]; paper.

c 1722

Add.3971.2: 39-66

Copies of Mathematical Papers by Tshirnhausen, Leibnitz, Slusius etc.
ff.28 [folio]; paper.

c 1722

Add.3971.3: 67-76

"Sur la Cubature du Coin Spherique" par M. de Lagny.
ff.10 [folio]; paper.

c 1722

Add.3971.4: 77-82

Fragments on Mathematical Subjects by Cassini, Craig and Morland.
ff.6 [mixed]; paper.

c 1722