Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Further reading
- Note on texts and translations
- I “New Theory about Light and Colours”
- II Correspondence with Robert Boyle [1679]
- III De Gravitatione [date unknown]
- IV The Principia [1687, first edition]
- V “An Account of the System of the World”
- VI Correspondence with Richard Bentley [1691–3]
- VII Correspondence with G. W. Leibniz [1693/1712]
- VIII Correspondence with Roger Cotes [1713]
- IX An Account of the Book Entitled Commercium Epistolicum [1715]
- X Queries to the Opticks [1721]
- Index
- References
VIII - Correspondence with Roger Cotes [1713]
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Further reading
- Note on texts and translations
- I “New Theory about Light and Colours”
- II Correspondence with Robert Boyle [1679]
- III De Gravitatione [date unknown]
- IV The Principia [1687, first edition]
- V “An Account of the System of the World”
- VI Correspondence with Richard Bentley [1691–3]
- VII Correspondence with G. W. Leibniz [1693/1712]
- VIII Correspondence with Roger Cotes [1713]
- IX An Account of the Book Entitled Commercium Epistolicum [1715]
- X Queries to the Opticks [1721]
- Index
- References
Summary
Cotes to Bentley
10 March 1713
Sir,
I received what you wrote to me in Sir Isaac’s letter. I will set about the index in a day or two. As to the preface I should be glad to know from Sir Isaac with what view he thinks proper to have it written. You know the Book has been received abroad with some disadvantage, and the cause of it may easily be guessed at. The Commercium Epistolicum lately published by order of the Royal Society gives such indubitable proof of Mr Leibniz’s want of candour that I shall not scruple in the least to speak out the full truth of the matter if it be thought convenient. There are some pieces of his looking this way, which deserve a censure, as his Tentamen de Motuum Coelestium causis. If Sir Isaac is willing that something of this nature may be done, I should be very glad if, whilst I am making the index, he would be pleased to consider of it and put down a few notes of what he thinks most material to be insisted on. This I say upon supposition that I write the preface myself. But I think it will be much more advisable that you or he or both of you should write it whilst you are in town. You may depend upon it that I will own it, and defend it as well as I can, if hereafter there be occasion.
I am, Sir,
Your most obliged and humble Servant
ROGER COTES
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- Newton: Philosophical Writings , pp. 153 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014