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Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 (Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1642 - 1727

Biography

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was born at Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, on 25 December 1642. He attended Grantham Grammar School, 1654-1656, before matriculating at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1661 (B.A., 1665), where he became a Fellow in 1667. In 1669 he was appointed Lucasian Professor at the university. Newton was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1672, and served as its President, 1703-1727. He was M.P. for Cambridge University, 1689 and 1701-1702. Newton's work on optics was published in 1704, and his research on the laws of motion appeared in his Principia, published in 1687. His other work included theological writings and the use of astronomy to try to amend ancient chronology. He was knighted in 1705, and died at Kensington, London, on 20 March 1727.

Found in 431 Collections and/or Records:

 Series

Additions and Corrections to the 2nd Edition of the Principia, 1692-1726

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965:13
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

Early drafts of the Principia and related notes; additions, corrections and revisions to the Principia. This is the 'general' category: papers relating specifically to lunar theory or containing mathematical problems are classified separately.

Dates: 1692-1726
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Papers Connected with the Principia (mostly holograph)
 File

Algebra and arithmetic, 1673-1683

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.68
Scope and Contents

Sir Isaac Newton's Lucasian lectures on algebra and arithmetic. See also MSS Dd.04.18, Dd.09.46 and Dd.09.67.

Dates: 1673-1683
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Two-letter class: western post-medieval manuscripts / Dd
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Altitudes by the Barometer, c 1700-c 1713

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3967.4: 30-42
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

Drafts intended for the second edition.

Dates: c 1700-c 1713
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Papers Connected with the Principia - Mathematical Problems
 Item

An Accompt of the charges of printing Mr Flamsteed's Historia Caelestis and preparing and correcting the Manuscript Copy thereof, 13 January 1715 (1715/16)

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/6/75
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 13 January 1715 (1715/16)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/macclesfield/1
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Macclesfield Collection / Letters / Letters & Papers of Barrow, Collins, Dary, Flamsteed, Gregory, Halley, Strode and Wallis
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An account of the Commercium Epistolicum, c 1700-c 1712

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3968.8: 67-96
Scope and Contents

Various different drafts

Dates: c 1700-c 1712
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Papers Relating to the dispute Respecting the Invention of Fluxions
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An Account of the Expenses of Printing Mr John Flamsteed's Observations by order of his Royall Highness the Prince, c 1705-c 1715

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4006.11: 22-24
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: c 1705-c 1715
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Correspondence, Articles of Agreement etc. about the Publication of Flamsteed's Observations
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An Account of the System of the World described in Mr Newton's Principles of Philosophy, c 1687-c 1700

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4005.7: 38-42
Scope and Contents

English version of Principia Book III.

Dates: c 1687-c 1700
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Miscellaneous Papers
 File

An early partial Principia draft, c 1685

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965.4: 15-20
Scope and Contents

Written in the hand of Humphrey Newton.

Dates: c 1685
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Papers Connected with the Principia (mostly holograph) / A small fragment (early) of the Principia
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Analysis and Synthesis: Newton's declaration of the manner of their application in the 'Principia', c 1716-c 1718

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/2/11
Scope and Contents

Draft for a new preface to Principia in light of the argument over priority of invention of calculus.

Dates: c 1716-c 1718
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/macclesfield/1
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Macclesfield Collection / Papers of Sir Isaac Newton
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Analysis Geometrica, c 1665-c 1727

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3963.4: 27-28
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: c 1665-c 1727
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Papers Relating to Geometry
 Series

Analysis per quantitates fluentes et earum momenta, c 1665-c 1700

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3960.6: 71-94
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

Papers on infinite series, curves and fluxions, in the hands of Newton and two others.

Dates: c 1665-c 1700
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Fluxions
 Series

Animadversions on Pierre Rémond de Monmort's letter to Nicholas Bernouilli (20 August 1713), c 1713 (Original letter dated 20 August 1713)

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3968.33: 465-472
Scope and Contents

Letter printed in the second edition of Monmort's "Analysis upon the play of Hazard" (Paris, 1713).

Dates: c 1713 (Original letter dated 20 August 1713)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Papers Relating to the dispute Respecting the Invention of Fluxions
 Series

Annotations in Commercium Epistolicum, c 1715-c 1720

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3968.14: 236-252
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: c 1715-c 1720
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Papers Relating to the dispute Respecting the Invention of Fluxions
 Series

Answer to Objections made to Newton's Optical Theories, c 1704-c 1710

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3970.5: 585-592
Scope and Contents

Also a scrap with memoranda about the Newtonian telescope

Dates: c 1704-c 1710
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Hydrostatics, Optics, Sound and Heat
 Series

Apographum schediasmatis a Newtono olim scripti…, 13 November 1665

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3968.1: 1-2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: 13 November 1665
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Papers Relating to the dispute Respecting the Invention of Fluxions
 Series

Appendix Containing Newton's Proofs of his Priority, c 1710-c 1720

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3968.15: 253-254
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: c 1710-c 1720
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Papers Relating to the dispute Respecting the Invention of Fluxions
 Fonds

Arithmetica Universalis, c 1705

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3993
Scope and Contents

Incomplete draft.

Dates: c 1705
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection
 Series

Arithmetica universalis, c 1700-c 1727

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3964.2: 5-6
Scope and Contents

A chapter on the limits of the roots of equations. See p.184 of the Leyden edition of the Arithmetica universalis.

Dates: c 1700-c 1727
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Miscellaneous Mathematical Subjects
 Series

Astronomiae, c 1665-c 1727

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4005.8: 43-44
Scope and Contents

MS copy of an astronomical treatise, containing a drawing and description of a quadrant or sextant for measuring angles by reflexion.

Dates: c 1665-c 1727
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Miscellaneous Papers
 File

Atmospheric Refraction, with detailed calculation of the Refraction at the altitudes of 0, 3, 12 and 30 degrees, c 1700-c 1713

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3967.3: 13-29
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

Drafts intended for the second edition.

Dates: c 1700-c 1713
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Papers Connected with the Principia - Mathematical Problems
 File

'Avertissement au Lecteur' and other short notes, c 1717

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/2/14
Scope and Contents

The 'Avertissement au Lecteur' was Newton's response to Des Maiseaux's publication of the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence.

Dates: c 1717
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/macclesfield/1
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Macclesfield Collection / Papers of Sir Isaac Newton
 File

Badly fire-damaged fragment of early Principia draft, c 1680-c 1685

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965.10: 130-131
Scope and Contents

Proposition numbers not filled in.

Dates: c 1680-c 1685
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Papers Connected with the Principia (mostly holograph) / On the Resistance of fluids; account of Hauksbee's experiments, with Newton's deductions; chiefly rough notes
 Series

Bernouilli's problem on drawing lines cutting a series of curves according to any given law, c 1698-c 1699

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3964.6: 5-6
Scope and Contents

Draft letter by Newton in response to "Eiusdem annotata in solutiones fraternas problematum quorundam suordam, editas proximo Acotorym Majo", by John Bernouilli in "Acta eruditorum", October 1698.

Dates: c 1698-c 1699
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Miscellaneous Mathematical Subjects
 Series

Calculation of the Area of the Hyperbola, Autumn 1665

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3958.4: 77-80
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: Autumn 1665
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Early Papers by Newton / Calculation of the Area of the Hyperbola
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Calculations for Forming Lunar Tables, c 1665-c 1727

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3966.13: 114-141
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: c 1665-c 1727
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Portsmouth Collection / Papers Connected with the Principia on Lunar Theory

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