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Seven drafts.

Scope and Contents Section I A-H. Letters to Sedgwick, 1821-1849, relating to English geology, museum accessions, etc. Section II A-Z, AA-II. Letters to Sedgwick, 1850-1872, relating to geology, the work of John William Salter, museum accessions, Lucas Barratt, etc. The correspondents include Harry Govier Seeley, Henry Keeping and Henry Wilkinson Cookson. JJ-OO. Letters to George William Featherstonhaugh and Osmond Fisher, 1827-c.1890s. The correspondents include Sir Richard Owen, Roderick Murchison and his...

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This category contains the manuscript letters in the Macclesfield collection excluding the Newton holographs and letters to Newton. It also contains a few other items which were bound alongside these letters.

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The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.

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Primarily Newton autographs and letters to Newton.

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This is an album consisting primarily of holograph letters to and from 17th and 18th century scientists, including Collins, Oughtred, Cavendish, Briggs, Fermat, Oldenburg, Halley, Boyle, Wallis and others. There are also some copy letters and other scientific papers.

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The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.

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Concerning a proposed Life of Newton

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Notes and Drafts is comprised of notes and designs for meteorological instruments, 1916-20; notes on visits to Bergen, 1920-21, and Danzig, 1939; drafts on psychology, 1940s; lectures on differential equations; notes on experiments on angular motion; and notes on 'The geostrophic wind', 'Dynamical meteorology', and 'Barometric gradient and wind speed'.

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Copy by John Collins. The recipient was perhaps a Mr Baldero, who was Master of Jesus College Cambridge from 1663 to 1679 and vice-chancellor of Cambridge in 1668, and the letter concerned the work of Isaac Barrow.

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Brief notes on all the items in Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678), Vol. 1 (1665 - 1666), pp.1-408; and Vol. 2 (1666-1667), pp.409-448.

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Contents page, pp.187-192 and one blank folio of a different size. Contains "VI. A Method of making a Gold-colour'd Glazing for Earthen-Ware; communicated in Latin, in a Letter from M. Godfridus Heinsius, Astron. Prof. at St. Petersburgh, to Mr. Peter Collinson, F.R.S. Read Nov. 11. 1742" and "VII. The mean Motion of the Apogee of the Moon, computed from Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, by G.P. Domcke, F.R.S. Read Nov. 11. 1742."

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The Macclesfield Collection principally comprises the archives of John Collins (1625-1683) and William Jones (1675-1749). As well as being mathematicians in their own right, both men corresponded with leading scientific figures of their day and so the collection includes autograph material by Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, Henry Briggs, Roger Cotes, Henry Oldenburg and Robert Hooke.

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The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.

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"Being Part of a Letter from The right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield to Martin Folkes Esq; President of the Royal Society."

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"Being Part of a Letter from The right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield to Martin Folkes Esq; President of the Royal Society."

Scope and Contents Part I. Correspondence A-Z Correspondence. PP Other personal papers. Part II. Research, lectures and speeches BD Drafts of books. PD Drafts of published scientific papers and lectures. ED Drafts of contributions to dictionaries and encyclopaedia. UD Drafts of unidentified or unpublished works. SN Notes for speeches. NC Notes and calculations. PH Photographs and diagrams. UL University lecture notes. EX Draft Examination questions. Part III. Thomson's work outside physics Government...

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Captioned photograph of the assembled Fellows of the Royal Society sitting in rows.

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"At a meeting of the Royal Society on 20th of August 1662, the amanuensis was ordered to translate into English, from the French, M. Hugens's letter to Sir Rob. Moray, dated from the Hague the 18th of August. The extract in the original is entered in their Letter Book, and this is probably the translation to which reference is made." Rigaud.