Commercium epistolicum de varia re mathematica, inter celeberrimos praesentis seculi mathematicos
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Type of record: Book
Title: Commercium epistolicum de varia re mathematica, inter celeberrimos praesentis seculi mathematicos
Classmark: BC Sc/NEW
Additional creator(s): Newton, Isaac (1642-1727) (Other); Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677) (Other); Keill, John (1671-1721) (Other); Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von (1646-1716) (Other); Royal Society (Great Britain) (Other)
Related people: Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716; Newton, Isaac; Barrow, Isaac; Keill, John; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Publisher: Impensis J. Tonson & J.Watts, prostant venales apud J. Mac-Euen
Publication city: Londini
Date(s): 1725
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [4] p. l.,250 p., 1 l
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/286171
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002232839705181
Description
A compilation in support of Newton's claim to have preceded Leibniz as inventor of the calculus.
Errors in paging: 145-176, 190, numbered 129-160, 109 respectively.
"Ad lectorem"(p.l. [2-4]) and "Recenso libri"(p.[1]-59) written by Sir Isaac Newton.
Indexed in: Variant 4c of the nine variants of this edition distinguished by A.G. Mackenzie in "The Durham philobiblon" of April 1958 (vol. 2, part 2 and 3), pp. 14-16; Gray 241, but with A1 (title) and A4 conjugate; not in Babson.
Additional description
Bookplate of John [Stuart, 3rd] earl of Bute on verso of title-leaf
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