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COLLINS, John. Commercium epistolicum ... de analysi promota ... , London: J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1722. 8° (195 x 120mm.). Wood-engraved printer's device on title, diagrams, errata and advertisments at end. (Browned and spotted throughout). Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked, extremities rubbed, scuffed). Second edition. Babson 187; Wallis 239.1.
John Collins maintained a prodigious correspondence with all the major scientists of his day of which selections were published, by order of the Royal Society, as the present Commercium epistolicum. In this correspondence "Newton's priority over Leibnitz in the discovery of the infinitesimal calculus was established; the first specimens of results from the use of the fluxional method, transmitted 20 July 1669 through Barrow to Collins, and by him made widley known, affording positive proof of Newton's early possession of it" (DNB). "The additional material, mainly in Ad Lectorem and Recensio Libri, was written by Newton ... the textual changes amd added notes were also his" (Wallis).
John Collins maintained a prodigious correspondence with all the major scientists of his day of which selections were published, by order of the Royal Society, as the present Commercium epistolicum. In this correspondence "Newton's priority over Leibnitz in the discovery of the infinitesimal calculus was established; the first specimens of results from the use of the fluxional method, transmitted 20 July 1669 through Barrow to Collins, and by him made widley known, affording positive proof of Newton's early possession of it" (DNB). "The additional material, mainly in Ad Lectorem and Recensio Libri, was written by Newton ... the textual changes amd added notes were also his" (Wallis).
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