Collins, John, 1626-1683 (mathematician and scientific administrator)
Found in 257 Collections and/or Records:
"A Treatise of Coins" and "Of the Standards of Metals", c 1650-c 1683
Hand of John Collins. ff.61-63 (unbound quarto) are in the hand of William Jones.
About an Annuity Problem, 2 April 1674
Extract from Add. 9597/13/6/144 in the hand of Collins
About Slusius's Method of Tangents
This category contains the manuscript letters in the Macclesfield collection excluding the Newton holographs and letters to Newton. It also contains a few other items which were bound alongside these letters.
About Streightening the Logarithmic Curves, 17 May 1671
Extracts from Add. 9597/13/6/126-7 in the hand of Collins. See also Add. 9597/13/6/121.
About the Areas of a Zone of a Circle; About Streightening the Logarithmic Curve, 19 December 1670
Extracts from a letter from James Gregory to John Collins
About the Rumbe Spirall, 20 April 1670
This category contains the manuscript letters in the Macclesfield collection excluding the Newton holographs and letters to Newton. It also contains a few other items which were bound alongside these letters.
Aequatio Cartesiana
This is an album consisting primarily of holograph letters to and from 17th and 18th century scientists, including Collins, Oughtred, Cavendish, Briggs, Fermat, Oldenburg, Halley, Boyle, Wallis and others. There are also some copy letters and other scientific papers.
An Abstract of the 3rd Volume of the Letters of Des Cartes, c 1650-1683
This category contains the manuscript letters in the Macclesfield collection excluding the Newton holographs and letters to Newton. It also contains a few other items which were bound alongside these letters.
An Answer to Mr Strode's Paper
This category contains the manuscript letters in the Macclesfield collection excluding the Newton holographs and letters to Newton. It also contains a few other items which were bound alongside these letters.
Animadversiones Geometricae, c 1650 - c 1683
Copy by John Collins of work by Henry Briggs.
Animadversiones Geometricae, c 1650-c 1683
Copy by John Collins of work by Henry Briggs.
Barrow's Pieces, c1650-c1700
Includes autograph material by Barrow, and copies of works by both Barrow and Gregory in the hand of Collins.
Catalogue of Correspondence Between David Gregory and John Collins
This category contains the manuscript letters in the Macclesfield collection excluding the Newton holographs and letters to Newton. It also contains a few other items which were bound alongside these letters.
Construction of Equations, c1670 - c1683
Note on inside front cover by William Jones reads: "A Copy of a piece of Sir Isaac Newton in John Collins' handwriting."
Copies of James Gregory's Papers in the Hand of John Collins
This category contains the manuscript letters in the Macclesfield collection excluding the Newton holographs and letters to Newton. It also contains a few other items which were bound alongside these letters.
Copies of Letters from Leibnitz, Slusius etc. to Oldenburg, c 1722
Transcripts of mathematical and astronomical letters and papers, apparently made for the use of Isaac Newton, in various hands. Included are copies of works by R.F. Slusius, Antonio Monforte, Jacques Ozanam, G.W. Leibnitz, E.W. von Tschirnhaus, Henry Oldenburg, T.F. de Lagny, G.D. Cassini, John Craig and S. Morland.
Copies of Mathematical Papers by Tshirnhausen, Leibnitz, Slusius etc., c 1722
Transcripts of mathematical and astronomical letters and papers, apparently made for the use of Isaac Newton, in various hands. Included are copies of works by R.F. Slusius, Antonio Monforte, Jacques Ozanam, G.W. Leibnitz, E.W. von Tschirnhaus, Henry Oldenburg, T.F. de Lagny, G.D. Cassini, John Craig and S. Morland.
Copies of Three Letters from John Wallis to John Collins, 29 March 1673-12 April 1673
Inaccurate copies of Add. 9597/13/6/233-4; Add. 9597/13/6/235 and another letter, the original of which is lost.
Copy by John Collins of a letter by Isaac Newton 'to a friend of his', together with Collins's description of a telescope mentioned in the Newton letter., 23 February 1668 (1668/9)
Primarily Newton autographs and letters to Newton.
Copy by John Collins of a Letter from John Wallis to Giovanni Alphonso Borelli, 13 June 1669 (1669/70)
This category contains the manuscript letters in the Macclesfield collection excluding the Newton holographs and letters to Newton. It also contains a few other items which were bound alongside these letters.
Copy, in the hand of Collins, of a letter from James Gregory to Henry Oldenburg, 8 June 1675
This category contains the manuscript letters in the Macclesfield collection excluding the Newton holographs and letters to Newton. It also contains a few other items which were bound alongside these letters.
Copy letter from Isaac Newton [to John Smith?], 24 July 1675
Primarily Newton autographs and letters to Newton.
Copy Letter from John Collins to James Gregory, 5 May 1671
This category contains the manuscript letters in the Macclesfield collection excluding the Newton holographs and letters to Newton. It also contains a few other items which were bound alongside these letters.
Copy of a letter from John Collins to Giovanni Alphonso Borelli, c 1880
The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.
Copy of a Letter originally in the hand of John Collins, c 1880
The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.
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