Details

Other Title:

Geometria analytica.
Methodus fluxionum.

Subjects:

Calculus -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics.
Calculus.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Treatise on calculus and infinite series, in a copy made during Newton's lifetime from Newton's own manuscript, originally written in 1670-1671. This copy, written for William Jones, editor of another of Newton's works on calculus, was the source of the first printed editions in English in 1730 and 1737.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title in ink pasted on front flyleaf; later published under the title Methodus fluxionum.
Pagination: Paper, i + 72 + i leaves; [i-x], 1-100, [101-134 (blank)]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper outer corners. Catchwords on each page, lower right corner.
Layout: Written in 34-44 long lines; margins ruled in ink.
Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand (possibly a secretary to William Jones).
Decoration: Mathematical diagrams throughout.
Watermark: Maid of Dort form of Pro Patria watermark, with countermark of crowned GR.
Binding: Contemporary reversed calf binding, paneled in blind.
Origin: Written in Cambridge, England, circa 1710 (when William Jones had access to Isaac Newton's manuscript (D. T. Whiteside)).
Formerly owned by William Jones, mathematician, member of the Royal Society, and editor of some of Newton's works; deposited by Jones in the library of Shirburn Castle (shelfmark 175 E12; possible remnants of seal, p. 1), where Jones was tutor to Thomas Parker, later first earl of Macclesfield, and his son.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Offered for sale at an earlier date by Nigel Phillips Rare Books (Chilbolton, Hampshire).
Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 1135 (1991), number 64, and catalog 1175 (1993), number 78.
Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 30.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 49 (LJS 199).

Publications about:

The beginning of this manuscript is transcribed in The mathematical papers of Isaac Newton (D. T. Whiteside, editor), volume 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969), p. 32, in place of the missing first folio of Newton's own manuscript of this text.

Cited as:

LJS 199

Contributor:

Jones, W. (William), 1675-1749, former owner.
Macclesfield, Thomas Parker, Earl of, 1666?-1732, former owner.
Stanitz, John D., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

864681157

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page