Collaboration and Rivalry in the Publishing of Newton’s Mathematics: A Study of Russell Library, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Shelfmark: Sc. 22. 3

TheNewton, Isaac purpose of thisMaynooth, Russell Library chapter is to study a miscellany of mathematical essays gathered in a volume held at the Russell LibraryMaynooth, Russell Library, St Patrick’s CollegeMaynooth, St Patrick's College, Maynooth. The study of this volume will allow us to learn about the strategies of publicationPublication, strategies and manuscript circulationManuscript circulation adopted by mathematicians belonging to Pitcairne’sPitcairne, Archibald and Newton’s circlesNewton's circle and about the prestige they sought to acquire by showing prowess in the new techniques of the infinitesimal calculusAnalysis, infinitesimal calculus, in particular the so-called ‘method of quadraturesAnalysis, quadratures’ or ‘inverse method of fluxionsAnalysis, inverse method of fluxions’, i.e. the method of integration, as LeibnizLeibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm and Johann BernoulliBernoulli, Johann I would say. The study of this collection has something to teach us about the collaborationMathematics, collaboration and disputesMathematics, disputes that characterized mathematics in the early eighteenth century, and that were catalyzed by attempts to publish particular mathematical works of Isaac NewtonNewton, Isaac