Item 123 - Letter from Augustus De Morgan

6 pp

7 Camdn. St. & T. - He has received 'the Newton' [Edleston ed. Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes]: 'It is that kind of book of which one's opinion is not made up in a month or two'. He 'expected a strong Anti-Leibnitio-Flamsteedian bias'. He is to send Whewell a copy of the Logic and his new mathematical paper. Has Whewell seen the recent article in the Athenaeum [Dec. 21 1850] claiming William Hamilton's quantification of the predicate was first published by George Bentham in A New System of Logic (1827). De Morgan confirms that three of Hamilton's 'great points' are to be found in this work. Hamilton had in fact reviewed the book which 'stands at the head of his celebrated article on logic' in the Edinburgh Review.