Catalogue Entry: NATP00362

Copy in Newton's hand of Leibniz's letter to Hans Sloane

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 258r-262v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

[Normalized Text] [Diplomatic Text]

[1] * Vide supra pag 30. lin 15, 16 & pag. 71 lin 23, 36 & pag 72 lin 1, 4. & p 85 l. 33 & p. 86 l. 16. & p 90 lin 26, 27, 28, 29 & p 93 lin 20. & p 94. lin 3, 13.

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[3] The contents of this note are only visible in the diplomatic transcript because they were deleted on the original manuscript

[4] a Quomodo suum cuique passim tributum fuit videre licet in superioribus pag.

[5] b Quandoque per se, quandoque per D. Leibnitium. Adhibendo fluxiones pro differentijs quemadmodum Fabrius motuum progressus Cavallerianæ methodo substituit. Vide pag. o

[6] c Quo sensu D. Iacobus Gregorius invenit methodum serierum convergentium, eodem D. Leibnitius ingenit Methodum infinitesimalem.

[7] d Hugenius causam non audivit.

[8] e Sic et Seriem Gregorij ab Oldenburgo acceptam in nonum annum pressit.

[9] f Newtonum Intelligit et ejus amicos.

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g Novit Leibnitius Newtonum scripsisse se in methodum fluxionum annis 1665 & 1666 paulatim incidisse: superest ut Leibnitius dicat quo tempore ipse in methodum differentialem incidit, & quid lumines vel inter Anglos vel ab Anglia per Epistolas accepit. Hæc agnoscere debuit anno 1684 ubi primum elementa methodi differentialis in lucem dedit.

Scriptis in lucem editis Newtonus rem permittit aliorum judicijs

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