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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:

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Draft Letter from Newton to Locke (subsequently sent on 2 August 1692 - see Correspondence, vol. 3, 217-219); miscellaneous calculations associated with revision of the Principia, Summer 1692

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965.13: 469
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: Summer 1692
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) / Additions and Corrections to the 2nd Edition of the Principia
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Draft letter from Sir Isaac Newton probably to John Chamberlayne, defending Keill, c 1710-c 1720

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3968.30 438-444
Scope and Contents

Also a copy in Newton's hand of an English translation of Leibnitz's letter to Chamberlayne.

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
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Draft Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to Johann Burchard Mencke, 1724

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/2/18/125a
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Primarily Newton autographs and letters to Newton.

Dates: 1724
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 / The Letters and Papers of Newton
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Draft Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to John Flamsteed, 12 April 1681 (The final copy of this letter was sent on 16 April)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3979.3
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: 12 April 1681 (The final copy of this letter was sent on 16 April)
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 with Flamsteed
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Draft letter from Sir Isaac Newton to Pierre des Maizeaux, c 1710-c 1720

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3968.29: 420-437
Scope and Contents

Contains proposed additions to the "Remarks" on Leibnitz's second Letter to the Abbe Conti (see Des Maizeaux, Vol. 2, pp. 82-106.)

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
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Draft Letters from Isaac Newton to John Wallis, c 1676-c 1700

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3977.7-8
Scope and Contents

Concerning the publication of his letters to Oldenburg of October 1676, including corrections to typographical errors.

Dates: c 1676-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 / Correspondence with Collins and Wallis
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Draft letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Pierre Varignon and others, c 1713-c 1720

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3968.42: 594-619
Scope and Contents

Relating to Bernoulli's letter of 7 June 1713

Dates: c 1713-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
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Draft Letters from the Referees of 'Historia Coelestis Britannica' to Ole Roemer Relating to Tycho's Observations, c 1705-c 1710

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4006.2: 3-5bis
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 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 / Correspondence, Articles of Agreement etc. about the Publication of Flamsteed's Observations
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Draft of a corollary to a 'Prop. XVIII' (not Prop. XVIII of any printed version of Principia), c 1685 (I.B. Cohen identifies it as originating before the first edition of Principia.)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965.10: 104-105
Scope and Contents

Apparently an early version of the Scholium Generale which concludes Sec. IV of the 1687 first edition of Principia but is moved to Sec. VI in the 1713 and 1726 editions.

Dates: c 1685 (I.B. Cohen identifies it as originating before the first edition of Principia.)
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
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Draft of Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to the Editor of Memoirs of Literature, 17 May 1712

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3968.17: 257
Scope and Contents

Not published in Memoirs of Literature

Dates: 17 May 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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Draft of Newton's Letter concerning 'A Scheme of Mathematical Learning Proposed for Mr Stone's Foundation at Christ's Hospital', c 1665-c 1727

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4005.21: 93
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers either in Newton's hand or concerning his life and work. Subjects covered include the Royal Society, education, cosmography, mechanics, mathematics, astronomy and shipbuilding.

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
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Draft of Newton's Letter concerning 'A Scheme of Mathematical Learning Proposed for Mr Stone's Foundation at Christ's Hospital', c 1665-c 1727

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4005.22: 94-101
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers either in Newton's hand or concerning his life and work. Subjects covered include the Royal Society, education, cosmography, mechanics, mathematics, astronomy and shipbuilding.

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
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Draft of Part of Principia, Book II

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/2/18/124-125
Scope and Contents

Covers Proposition XXXVII. Theorema XXIX; Lemma IV-VIII and Propositio XXXVIII. Theorema XXX (here called Theorema XXIX.) See also item 9597/2/18/127 f.125v contains a list "Fallacies & false Hypotheses".

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 / The Letters and Papers of Newton
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Draft of Part of Principia, Book II

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/2/18/127
Scope and Contents

Covers Propositio XXXVII. See also item 9597/2/18/124-125.

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 / The Letters and Papers of Newton
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Draft of part of the "Account of the Commercium Epistolicum" (i.e. the English "Recensio") for Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 29. (1714 - 1716), pp. 173-224, c 1714

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3968.39: 575-792
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 1714
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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Draft of part of the Preface to the 1st Edition of the Principia: not quite as printed, in part fuller, 1687

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965:15
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: 1687
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)
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Draft of part of the preface to the first edition of the Principia. Not quite as printed, in part fuller. Together with the printed prefatory poem by Edmund Halley, slightly amended by hand., Spring 1687

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965.15: 619-620
Scope and Contents

Much interlineated and corrected. There is a fair copy by an amanuensis at Add. 3963.15: 183, which differs slightly from this.

Dates: Spring 1687
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) / Draft of part of the Preface to the 1st Edition of the Principia: not quite as printed, in part fuller
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Draft of parts of Principia, Propositions XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV and XL, c 1680-c 1687

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965.10: 139-140
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: c 1680-c 1687
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
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Draft of Principia Proposition XL, Problem X, c 1680-c 1687

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965.10: 141-142
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: c 1680-c 1687
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
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Draft of Principia Proposition XXXV, Problem VIII, c 1680-c 1687

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965.10: 137-138
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: c 1680-c 1687
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
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Draft of: "Prop. XVI Theor XII", c 1710-c 1715

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3984.3
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 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 / Rough Drafts of Some of Newton's Letters to Cotes
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Draft of Proposition XXXVII, c 1710-c 1715

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3984.11
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 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 / Rough Drafts of Some of Newton's Letters to Cotes
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Draft of the Opening of Newton's Opticks, Book Three, c 1704

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3970.3: 79-90
Scope and Contents

The margin is as in the printer's copy, but contains no printer's marks.

Dates: c 1704
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
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Drafts of an unpublished Prop. Cas. 7 of 'De quadratura curvarum', c 1665-c 1700

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3960.8: 137-160
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
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Drafts of the preface to the third edition of Principia, 1724-November 1725

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965.16: 621-628
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: 1724-November 1725
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) / Preface and Preparations for 3rd Edition of the Principia

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