Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century: Including Letters of Barrow, Flamsteed, Wallis, and Newton, Printed from the Originals in the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield : In Two Volumes, Volume 2

Stephen Jordan Rigaud

University Press, 1841 - 609 pagina's

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Remarks on methods of equations Davenants problem	3

Newtons papers sent Tin farthings Various solutions	10

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME	14

Cardanus promotus State of mathematical publishing in Eng	16

Remarks on above demonstration	21

Recommendations as to his printing with remarks on state	22

Private affairs Deaths of Barrow and Kersey Cubic equa	26

Difficulty in dialling Recommendation to length of expla	28

With the Essai dAnalyse	257

Criticism on Anderson and others on the motion of projec	258

Receipt of Commercium Epistolicum Keill Printing	264

Tschirnhauss communication on solution of equations	266

Equations Remarks of Des Cartes and Hudde	272

Announcement of discovery of integration by use of angles	273

Questions on the writers paper against Bernoulli Criticism	280

Inquiries and difficulties on the canons Impossible quan	281

Major General Lamberts problems	32

Announces a micrometer and asks Oughtreds criticism	34

Parabolic conoid Cubical parabolic conoid section of	38

Sums of terms squares and cubes of arithmetical progression	46

Full account of the micrometer with previous experiments	55

Quadrature of hyperbola Theorems on circle cone conoid	56

Asks for the solution of a problem	60

Explanations and continuations of the last	64

Discourages Keylway Mentions Cavalieri and prognosticates	66

His optical lectures Slusius	68

Private affairs Questions in mathematics	73

On the same subject	75

Earnestly desires help in the solution of ab1 bc2 cd3	80

Explains derivation of problem in XXIX as at the end of	86

Flamsteeds well known first paper partly printed in the Phil	90

Acknowledges a donation and asks for interest with govern	92

Acknowledgments and inquiries Errors in Riccioli	98

Evelyn Mezzotinto Hobbes Boyle Gravity of air	99

Commissions Lunar eclipse Correction of Fabris Optics	103

Thanks for communication about pendulums at sea Question	106

Commissions Horrocks Criticism of Hevelius The print	110

Campanis observations Watches Oscillations	112

Barometer China Gresham rarities	114

Commissions Observations	116

Remarks on books Salusbury List of books	120

Gascoigne and Crabtree Hevelius Miscellaneous	122

Jesuits Euclid Conversation about elementary works Hud	129

Pells edition of Brankers Rhonius Kersey	136

Criticism on Horrockss theory of the motion of the moons	143

Books Problems of the differential kind Barrow	147

Edition of Horrocks	151

Remarks on books Rawlinson Anderson Anderson Streete Har	155

Correction of mistake in his meaning	157

Acknowledgments Edition of Horrocks Keplers Mars	163

Miscellaneous commissions c and news of books and mathe	164

Huyghens equation of days	170

Wallis Wren Mention of books	172

Newtons reflecting telescope Morlands speakingtrumpet	179

Newtons Kinkhuysen Mention of books Problem of	186

Reply to Walliss objection on last subject A quadrant	187

Barrow Criticism on Anderson Proposition on ellipses	193

Roots of equation Fermat on numbers Dulaurens Dary	201

Maurolycus and others conic sections Coming publications	203

Baldis lives of mathematicians News of mathematicians	209

Sir Criticism on Anderson Circle and hyperbola	215

Sept 30 1675 COLLINS TO OLDENBURG FOR TSCHIRNHAUS	220

Council of plantations Bernard Information on books	221

Solution of equations Second segments of spheroids	229

On his paper on aphelia Error in Mercator on Ward	236

On the paper on aphelia	242

Pells assertions on equations c Haak Descartes censure	248

Rejoinder to Newtons answer to Collins about the last letter	250

Observations of solar eclipse	254

Commissions Annuity problem	256

Godfreys quadrant Complaint of Halley Geometrical	286

to find the rate of interest Kinkhuy	288

Difficulty in sines for arc of ellipse Attempt at substitution	292

The wellknown letter of counsel to a young man setting	295

Sends some papers on quadratures	298

Continuation of the last Abuse of Berkeley	300

Kinkhuysen reprint of Harmonic progression Mengolus	301

Kinkhuysen The problems of trisection and of two mean	308

Further quadratures	310

Illness Begins to new methodise the doctrine of series Har	311

On speculummetal Sends admission money to Royal	317

Answer to reply to CVIII on arc of ellipse Godfrey	319

Acknowledgments and thanks Varenius Additions	323

Problem in Gregory Duplication of the cube	326

Answer to inquiries on optics Queries on optics	328

Remarks on previous duplication Remarks on Halleys solu	332

Printing of proposals Pardies letter and answer	334

Complaint of being incorrectly printed in Phil Trans	340

Formula for approximate solution of equations	346

Thanks for Horrox Understands that foreign mathema	347

Private affairs Problems in quadratures	353

On a point in Picards measurement and his own	359

Comparison by a friend of Heuret and Boss Bosse on optics	360

Formulæ for logarithms Quadrature of lunales Leyden	365

Although he sent three papers yesterday has had fresh	367

Approximate extraction of roots	372

Astronomical observations and remarks	375

The same experiment on electric virtue of glass Answer	380

Further account of the glass experiment More on Hookes	387

Reply at length to an objection on the theory of colours	395

Remarks on a letter therewith sent containing problems	402

Detailed account of the ethereal hypothesis	419

Report on the state of the coinage Also observations dated	430

Acknowledgment of some calculations and application	436

Question in geometry of ellipse arising out of Bouillaud	443

Remarks on demonstrations in conic sections	450

His illness Tin farthings Notes on books Hints	458

Present of books Mathematical instrument makers Notes	460

Acknowledgments Answer to the points of the last	467

Explanation on Pittss offer Kersey Bunning Cocker	474

Oughtred Vieta Points of notation Notes on books	482

Criticism on Dulaurens Neils quadrature Leotaud	490

Forwards corrections for printer The sign x Quadrature	497

Printing Pell Huyghens and others quadrature of hyper	505

Table of segments of circles	512

Criticism of Dr Newton Notes of books c	517

Book of that new Dutch engine Corrections for	524

Papers of Horrocks and Crabtree Printing in parts New	530

Solution of a problem of tangents	537

Addition to CCCXXII	542

Description of various things sent for the work of Hor	547

Bernard and Apollonius Printing of Kersey and of Hor	554

No date COLLINS to Wallis	35

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Titel	Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century: Including Letters of Barrow, Flamsteed, Wallis, and Newton, Printed from the Originals in the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield : In Two Volumes, Volume 2 Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century: Including Letters of Barrow, Flamsteed, Wallis, and Newton, Printed from the Originals in the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield : In Two Volumes, Stephen Jordan Rigaud
Redacteur	Stephen Jordan Rigaud
Uitgever	University Press, 1841
Oorspronkelijk uit	Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Gedigitaliseerd	3 nov 2010
Lengte	609 pagina's

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