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in English
Oxford Jul
Sir,
About a month or five weeks since I sent you a letter,
& with it a Transcript of your two letters which I wished
might be printed. And because I suspect
there was
mistakes (particularly in some of those Examples ch
give of what you call your Theorema Primum in your
second letter) I desired you would please to consider & cor
rect them to your own mind. And I would desire allso that
you would please to explain those words which (in two
places) you have conceled by transposing the letters. I hoped
that by the first or second return of the Carrier you would
have favoured me with a return of those papers so cor
rected. If you do not think fit to proceed to print them:
I would yet desire you would favour me with them so
corrected that I might at
the Savilian Library amongst other Manuscript Papers;
which will be no dishonour to you, but confirm to you
the reputation of your having discovered these notions
so long ago. And if in this or ought else I may be in
a capacity of serving you I shal readily do it; & do still
continue to importune you to be so just to your self, &
kind to the publick
you have in so great readyness as I hear you ha
due time.
r
your very humble
servant
John Wallis
For M r Isaac Newton, Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge, & Professor of Mathematics in that University.
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