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Moivre, Abraham de, 1667-1754 (French mathematician)

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Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin announcing his intention to write A Treatise of Fluxions, 16 November 1734

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Identifier: Coll-2911/6
Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed by Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at Mr Watt's Academy in the little Tower Street, London", dated 16 November 1734, announcing his intention to write A Treatise of Fluxions ("Upon more consideration I did not think it best to write an answer to Dean Berkeley but to write a treatise of fluxions which might answer the purpose and be useful to my scholars. I intend that it shall be laid before you as soon I shall...
Dates: 16 November 1734
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, principally on fluxions, 12 May 1738

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Identifier: Coll-2911/9
Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at Leadhills", dated 12 May 1738, principally on fluxions ("I am persuaded many things are wanting in the inverse methods of fluxions especially in what relates to fluents that are not reduced and perhaps are not reduced to the logarithms or circle. I give a chapter on these, distinguish them into various orders, and shew easy constructions of lines by whose rectification they may be assigned"), citing the work of...
Dates: 12 May 1738
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin recommending "an ingenious young man", April 1938

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Identifier: Coll-2911/8
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Autograph letter signed by Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stilring "at Lead Hills", dated April 1738, in Dean near Edinburgh, recommending "an ingenious young man here who I am very sure will please you" owing to his "natural turn for making mathematical instruments", with a postscript regarding the publication of De Moivre’s new book (presumably the second edition of The Doctrine of Chances) and mentioning centripetal forces.

Dates: April 1938
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling