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Geometry

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

A copy of Schooten's edition of Descartes' Geometry, (Lugd. 1649), with a few notes in Newton's hand

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3994
Scope and Contents

Moved to Rare Books: Adv. D. 39.1

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
 Fonds

College Notebook, 1664-1665

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4000
Scope and Contents

A small note-book, written from both ends, containing early exercises - extraction of the square and cube root, elementary Geometry, etc. - followed by annotations of Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum. This is preceded by a note of Newton's fixing by an entry in his account-book the date of the annotations as being in the winter 1664-1665, at which time he says he found the method of infinite series. Also notes on music, chances etc.

Dates: 1664-1665
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
 Sub-Fonds

Enumeration of Lines of the Third Order, c 1706

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3961
Scope and Contents

Papers regarding curves.

Dates: c 1706
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
 File

Geometrical Tract, c 1665-c 1672

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3958.5: 87-92
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 1672
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 / Three Tracts
 Item

Letter to Head about how to make spatial references using Ancient Greek words; letter-headed 'Arts Club, Dover Street', No year given, but 'September 12' written at the top of the letter.

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/3/3
Scope and Contents

The term 'acuaesthesia', written in large letters in this note, is listed as a term in the index for the experiment log (WHRivers/2/4/6).

Dates: No year given, but 'September 12' written at the top of the letter.
Found in: Department of Psychology / Papers of W H R Rivers / Experiments on Henry Head / Associated loose material (notes and images) relating to the experiment on Henry Head
 Series

Method of Curves and Infinite Series, and application to the Geometry of Curves, c 1665-c 1700

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3960.14: 3-265
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
 Sub-Fonds

On the Quadrature of Curves, c 1700-c 1706

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3962
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous drafts, notes and fragments regarding 'The Quadrature of Curves' (published 1706).

Dates: c 1700-c 1706
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
 Sub-Fonds

Papers Relating to Geometry, c 1665-c 1727

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3963
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
 File

Problems in Geometrical Optics, c 1666

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3958.6:93-96
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 1666
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 / Problems in Geometrical Optics
 Series

"Sur la Cubature du Coin Spherique" par M. de Lagny, c 1722

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3971.3: 67-76
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Transcripts of mathematical and astronomical letters and papers, apparently made for the use of Isaac Newton, in various hands. Included are copies of works by R.F. Slusius, Antonio Monforte, Jacques Ozanam, G.W. Leibnitz, E.W. von Tschirnhaus, Henry Oldenburg, T.F. de Lagny, G.D. Cassini, John Craig and S. Morland.

Dates: c 1722
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 Copies of Letters and Papers
 Item

The connection between language and imagination, 18810928

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/JWard/1/6
Dates: 18810928
Found in: Department of Psychology / The papers of Professor James Ward / Loose notes
 Series

The First Ten Propositions of the 2nd book of Euclid, Succinctly Enunciated and Demonstrated, c 1700

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3959.2: 22
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

Notes and papers regarding algebra and trigonometry.

Dates: 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 / Elementary Mathematics
 Series

Theorem on the Area of a Triangle, c 1700

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3959.3: 23
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

Notes and papers regarding algebra and trigonometry.

Dates: 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 / Elementary Mathematics
 Sub-Series

Treatises and other papers, 1604 - 1772

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 1/67
Scope and Contents

Copies and some original treatises on astronomy, longitude, optics and other subjects, dated 1607-1704, with additional notes, letters, drafts of letters and a catalogue of manuscripts, 325 folios (foliated continuously). The writing is in the hands of Flamsteed and others.

Dates: 1604 - 1772
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: 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 / Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives / Papers of John Flamsteed

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