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Newton, Humphrey, fl 1683-1720 (Isaac Newton's assistant)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: fl 1683 - 1720

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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A Humphrey Newton transcription of an amended version of "De motu corporum", c December 1684

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965.7: 40-54
Scope and Contents

Humphrey Newton's transcription of Newton's corrected primary autograph (Add. 3965.7: 55-62) amplified by an augmented set of introductory 'Definitions' and by new 'scholia' to Theorum 4 and Problem 5 and further altered and slightly amended by Newton's own hand. According to Whiteside, "By and large these latter changes convert the present text into corresponding portions of [Add. 3965.5]."

Dates: c December 1684
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) / Propositiones De Motu
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A small fragment (early) of the Principia, 1685

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965:4
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: 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)
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An early partial Principia draft, c 1685

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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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De motu corporum in mediis regulariter cedentibus, 1684

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965.5a: 23-26
Scope and Contents

Written in the hand of Humphrey Newton and amended in the hand of Isaac Newton, this is an amplified version of the opening of Add. 3965.7: 40-54. It is revised further in Add. 3965.5: 21-22.

Dates: 1684
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) / De Motu Corporum
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Letter from John Machin to William Jones, 4 August 1727

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/5/197
Scope and Contents

The reason why Rigaud doesn't print this is apparently that it is very critical of Sir Isaac Newton.

Dates: 4 August 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/macclesfield/1
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Macclesfield Collection / Letters / Letters and Papers A-W
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Notes on the Exodus

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/2/18/126
Scope and Contents

From Polemo, Africanus, Diodorus and others.

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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"Propositiones de Motu" [A Humphrey Newton transcription of De Motu Corporum], Autumn 1684

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965.7: 55-62*
Scope and Contents

The unamended text is very similar to the two known contemporary transcripts of the putative fair copy sent to London in November 1684 and entered around early December in the Royal Society's Register Book (6: ff.218-234.) The other existing copy (Add. 3965.7: ff.63-70) was made by Edmund Halley, perhaps slightly earlier. The changes and revisions to the initial state were afterwards effected by Humphrey Newton in Add. 3965.7: 40-54.

Dates: Autumn 1684
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) / Propositiones De Motu
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Propositions afterwards included in the Principia, but differently numbered, c 1685

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3965.3: 7-14
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) / Propositions afterwards included in the Principia, but differently numbered

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