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Campbell, George, fl 1728 (mathematician)

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Autograph letter signed by Colin Maclaurin on the dispute with George Campbell, 6 November 1729

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Identifier: Coll-2911/5
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Autograph letter from Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at the Academy in Little Tower Street, London", dated 6 november 1729, on the dispute with Campbell ("I wonder I had no message by a good hand from Mr Campbell before he printed these silly reports … He has misrepresented my paper much and found things in it I never asserted").

Dates: 6 November 1729
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin, on his intention to publish a piece on the collision of bodies, 7 December 1728

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Identifier: Coll-2911/3
Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed by Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at the Academy in little Tower Street", on Maclaurin's intention to publish a piece on the collision of bodies ("I wish I had Mr Graham's Experiment at full length with Liberty to insert it"), his response to the nascent priority dispute with George Campbell (his "design of giving a Treatise of Algebra", his "method of demonstrating that [i.e. Newton’s] rule by the Limits", by which "too Idemonstrate a Theorem in y[our?]...
Dates: 7 December 1728
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin on the dispute with Campbell, undated [probably 1729]

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Identifier: Coll-2911/2
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Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling, undated [probably 1729], on the dispute with George Campbell regarding impossible roots ("I send you with this letter my answer to Mr George Campbell which I publish with regret being so far from delighting in such a difference that I have the greatest dislike at a publick dispute of this Nature"), also mentioning a debt of six guineas to Abraham de Moivre.

Dates: undated [probably 1729]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin on the priority dispute with Campbell regarding impossible roots, 1 May 1729

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Identifier: Coll-2911/4
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Autograph letter from Colin Maclaurin to addressed to James Stirling "at the Academy in Little Tower Street, London", dated 1 May 1729, on the priority dispute with Campbell regarding impossible roots ("I have sent Mr Folkes the remainder of my paper … I am satisfied that any person who will read this paper and compare it with Mr Campbell’s will do me justice … The proposition I sent you in my last letter is the foundation of all my Theorems about the impossible Roots)".

Dates: 1 May 1729
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin on the priority dispute with George Campbell over the impossible roots of equations, 11 February 1728 [Old Style, i.e. 1729]

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Identifier: Coll-2911/1
Scope and Contents Autograph letter from Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at the Academy in Little Tower Street, London", dated Edinburgh, 11 February 1728 [Old Style, which means the year is actually 1729], expressing agitation regarding the replication of his work on the "impossible roots" in a paper by George Campbell in the Philosophical Transactions for October, asserting his own claim to priority, and providing demonstrations (including one...
Dates: 11 February 1728 [Old Style, i.e. 1729]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

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