Janus: The Portsmouth Collection

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005 contains:
Add.4005 unnumbered	Miscellaneous Notes Concerning Newton's Papers
Add.4005.1: 1-103	Copy of the Agreement Relating to Newton's MSS; Copy of Bond given by Conduitt in Relation to Newton's Papers; Account of John Conduitt's Right to the MSS of Newton
Add.4005.2: 1-8	A Scheme for Establishing the Royal Society
Add.4005.3: 1-16	Two printed copies of Newton's letter to the Abbe Conti, with remarks of Newton on the letter of Leibnitz to the Abbe Conti
Add.4005.4: 9	Advertisement of the Book "De Systemate Mundi"
Add.4005.4: 10-11	Suggested Corrections to Conduitt's Account of Newton's Life
Add.4005.4: 12-13	Letter from John Lee to James Hudson
Add.4005.5: 14-15	On Educating Youth in the Universities
Add.4005.5: 16	Testamonial to David Gregory for the position of Astronomy Professor at Oxford
Add.4005.5: 17-20	The Method of Teaching in the Colleges in Scotland
Add.4005.5: 21-22	Two Chapters on Cosmography
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The Portsmouth Collection

Title	Two printed copies of Newton's letter to the Abbe Conti, with remarks of Newton on the letter of Leibnitz to the Abbe Conti
Reference	MS Add.4005.3: 1-16
Covering Dates	August 1717
Extent and Medium	ff.16 [quarto]; paper

Content and context

These were shorts printed by Newton in London in Augut 1717 to be added to Raphson's "History of Fluxions" (after Leibniz's death). They were seen by Des Maizeaux, who then persuaded more letters out of Conti (early 1718). Bth were printed together in Tome 2 of "Recueil de diverses piéces par Mrs. Leibniz, Clarke, Newton, & autre autheurs celébres" (Amsterdam, 1720), pp.20., 82 & 107.

Index Terms

Calculus

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716) mathematician

Maizeaux, Pierre Des (1673-1745) biographer and journalist

Raphson, Joseph (1548-1715) mathematician

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