Letter from John Collins to Newton, dated 5 July 1671 John Collins c. 423 words The Newton Project Falmer 2012 Newton Project, University of Sussex

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 5 July 1671, in English with a little Latin, c. 426 words, 2 pp. 2 pp.

in English with a little Latin

 Draft response from Newton to John Collins's letter of 5 July 1671 [MS Add. 3977.9, ff. 2r-2v]Letter from Newton to John Collins, dated 20 July 1671 [MS Add. 9597/2/18/11] MS Add. 3977.9, ff. 1r-1v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK UKCambridgeCambridge University Library Portsmouth Collection MS Add. 3977.9, ff. 1r-1v </msItem> </msContents> </msDesc> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> <profileDesc> <creation> <origDate when="1671-07-05">5 July 1671</origDate> <origPlace>England</origPlace> </creation> <langUsage> <language ident="eng">English</language> <language ident="lat">with a little Latin</language> </langUsage> <handNotes> <handNote xml:id="unknown0">Unknown Hand</handNote> <handNote xml:id="unknown1">Unknown Cataloguer (1)</handNote> <handNote xml:id="unknown2">Unknown Cataloguer (2)</handNote> </handNotes> </profileDesc> <encodingDesc> <classDecl><taxonomy><category><catDesc n="Mathematics">Mathematics</catDesc><category><catDesc 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</facsimile> <text> <body> <div> <div type="letter"> <pb xml:id="p001r" n="1r" facs="#MS-ADD-03977-009-00001.jpg"/><fw type="shelfmark" place="topLeft" hand="#unknown1">Add 3977</fw><fw type="shelfmark" place="topRight" hand="#unknown1">(9)</fw><fw type="pag" place="topRight" hand="#unknown2">1</fw> <p rend="indent0" xml:id="par1">M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Newton <lb type="intentional" xml:id="l1"/><choice><abbr>S<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>Sir</expan></choice></p> <p xml:id="par2"><hi rend="large">I</hi> thinke it is almost a yeare since I accquainted <lb xml:id="l2"/>the Reverend Doctor Barrow, that M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> James <lb xml:id="l3"/>Gregory was by his owne Ingenuity falne into <choice><abbr>yo<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>your</expan></choice> <lb xml:id="l4"/>methods of infinite Series, and that he had wrote to me <lb xml:id="l5"/>to get his Booke <foreign xml:lang="lat">de quadratura Circuli</foreign> reprinted here <lb xml:id="l6"/>with some new Additions, but the said M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Gregory being <lb xml:id="l7"/>since informed by me that you had taken much paines in <lb xml:id="l8"/>that harvest, and invented the method some yeares before <lb xml:id="l9"/>Mercators <foreign xml:lang="lat">Logarithmotechnia</foreign> was printed, hath laid <lb xml:id="l10"/>aside his Intentions of publishing anything, being <lb xml:id="l11"/>likewise falne into other Studies, and much diverted by <lb xml:id="l12"/>the Lectures he is obliged <add indicator="yes" place="supralinear">unto</add>, Mercator when he published <lb xml:id="l13"/>his <foreign xml:lang="lat">Logarithmotechnia</foreign> affirmed he had applyed the same <lb xml:id="l14"/>method likewise to the Circle, but I never saw any Specim<choice><orig>ē</orig><reg>en</reg></choice> <lb xml:id="l15"/>of his, nor doe I thinke he hath so much as heard that any <lb xml:id="l16"/>other person hath <del type="strikethrough">any</del> made any Improovement of that <lb xml:id="l17"/>Method, he is indeed about to publish a table of <choice><abbr>Log<hi rend="superscript">mes</hi></abbr><expan>Logarithmes</expan></choice> <lb xml:id="l18"/>with Precepts for their Construction and Use, but what <lb xml:id="l19"/>he is like to produce I am unaccquainted with, the <lb xml:id="l20"/>Bookseller Pitts is not desirous as yet to put the <lb xml:id="l21"/>Introduction to Algebra to the Presse, and I conceive <lb xml:id="l22"/>you have made so many usefull additions thereto, that <lb xml:id="l23"/>when it comes to the Presse it may very well beare <lb xml:id="l24"/>the Title of your Introduction, and thereby find the <lb xml:id="l25"/>better entertainement, and more Speedy Sale, be pleased <lb xml:id="l26"/>to accept of Borellius his Booke <foreign xml:lang="lat">de motionibus <lb xml:id="l27"/>naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus</foreign>, whereof I send you one Exemplar</p> <fw type="catch" place="bottomRight"><hi rend="large">I</hi></fw><pb xml:id="p001v" n="1v" facs="#MS-ADD-03977-009-00002.jpg"/> <p xml:id="par3"><hi rend="large">I</hi> am at present employed as a Clerke attending <lb xml:id="l28"/>in the Councill of Plantations, and my Wife by <lb xml:id="l29"/>her fathers bounty is to enioy her Sisters Place as <lb xml:id="l30"/>Laundresse of the table Linnen to the Queene, her <lb xml:id="l31"/>Sister being gone into Cheshire to live upon an <lb xml:id="l32"/>Estate lately befalne her husband, and their Children <lb xml:id="l33"/>By this meanes I am remooved to the house of <lb xml:id="l34"/>M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> William Austin (my wifes father) in Petty <lb xml:id="l35"/>france Westminster over against the Adam and Eve <lb xml:id="l36"/>whither if you vouchsafe to write to me, be pleased to <lb xml:id="l37"/>direct your Letter, <choice><abbr>S<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>Sir</expan></choice> by what I have said you <lb xml:id="l38"/>will see no great reason to overhasten the publication <lb xml:id="l39"/>of your thoughts for feare of being prevented by others, use <lb xml:id="l40"/>therefore your owne discretion, and if I heare of any <lb xml:id="l41"/>undertakings of the like kind you may expect an account <lb xml:id="l42"/>thereof from him that wisheth you good Successe, and is</p> <p rend="right" xml:id="par4"><hi rend="large">Y</hi>our thankfull obliged Servtor <lb type="intentional" xml:id="l43"/>John Collins</p> <p rend="left" xml:id="par5">London the <lb type="intentional" xml:id="l44"/>5<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> of July 1671</p> </div> </div> </body> </text> </TEI>