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Title

Artis analyticae specimina

Authors

• Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727

Other related names

• Jones, W. 1675-1749, former owner
• Macclesfield, Thomas Parker, Earl of, 1666?-1732, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 199
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 6064928
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6064928

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

circa 1710

Place

Cambridge, England

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.
   
• 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.
   

Watermark

Maid of Dort form of Pro Patria watermark, with countermark of crowned GR.

Extent

72 leaves : 301 x 185 (258 x 143) mm. bound to 310 x 200 mm

Foliation

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.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary reversed calf binding, paneled in blind.

Layout

Written in 34-44 long lines; margins ruled in ink.

Decoration

Mathematical diagrams throughout.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand (possibly a secretary to William Jones).

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Calculus--Early works to 1800
• Mathematics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• 7 — Diagram, p. 7
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• 34 — Diagram, p. 34
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• 100 — Diagram, p. 100