Unpublished paper, 'A comparison of the first and second editions of the "Commercium Epistolicum D Johannis Collins et aliorum de analysi promota' by A [Augustus] de Morgan
Reference number: AP/29/2
Date: 23 November 1846
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De Morgan presents a series of observations on a collection of correspondence highlighting a dispute between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton over the invention of calculus, or the method of fluxions.
Marked on front as 'Returned to the author for some additions, at his request, and finally received Jan 11 1847 C R W' and ' 'Archives 20 Jan 1848 S H C [Samuel Hunter Christie]'.
Subject: Mathematics / Calculus
Received 14 November 1846 / 11 January 1847 / 14 January 1847.
A version of this paper was published by de Morgan in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science: Prof. De Morgan. 'On the additions made to the second edition of the Commercium Epistolicum.' The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, volume 32, number 217 (1848), pp. 446-456.
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- AP/29/2
- Earliest possible date
- 23 November 1846
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- Page extent
- 14 pages
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Augustus de Morgan, Unpublished paper, 'A comparison of the first and second editions of the "Commercium Epistolicum D Johannis Collins et aliorum de analysi promota' by A [Augustus] de Morgan, 23 November 1846, AP/29/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_29_2/unpublished-paper-a-comparison-of-the-first-and-second-editions-of-the-commercium-epistolicum-d-johannis-collins-et-aliorum-de-analysi-promota-by-a-augustus-de-morgan, accessed on 13 May 2026
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Archived papers: volume 29, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1846-1848
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