C. J. CLAY AND SONS,

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE,

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Cambridge: DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO.

Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS.

THE SCIENTIFIC PORTION OF WHICH

HAS BEEN PRESENTED BY THE EARL OF PORTSMOUTH
TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

DRAWN UP BY THE SYNDICATE APPOINTED
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CAMBRIDGE

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1888

Pref. Alex. Ziwet

12-18-1923

IV.

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Enumeration of Lines of the Third Order

V. On the Quadrature of Curves

VI. Papers relating to Geometry.

VII. Miscellaneous Mathematical subjects

VIII. Papers connected with the 'Principia.' A. General

XI.

ib.

9

ib.

10

ib.

Papers relating to the dispute respecting the invention of

Fluxions

XII. Astronomy

XIII. Hydrostatics, Optics, Sound, and Heat

XIV. Miscellaneous copies of Letters and Papers

XV. Papers on finding the Longitude at Sea

SECTION II.

CHEMISTRY.

*I. Parcels containing Transcripts from Alchemical authors

*II. Papers on Alchemy

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I. Correspondence with Oldenburg

II. Correspondence with Collins and Wallis

III. Letters of A. Storer to Dr Babington and to Newton

IV. Correspondence with Flamsteed

VI. Letters from Halley to Newton on the first publication of the

VII. Letters of Halley to Newton about Comets' Orbits

*VIII. Letters of Halley to Newton and Molyneux, relating to the

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IX. Letters from Cotes to Newton on the 2nd edition of the 'Principia' 37

X. Rough drafts of some of Newton's Letters to Cotes

XI. Letters of Keill to Newton

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XII. Letters of Pemberton to Newton while editing the 3rd edition of

the 'Principia'.

ib.

Miscellaneous Letters

*XIII. Letters of N. Facio Duillier to Newton and others

*XIV.

*XV. Copies of Newton's Letters, published in the Macclesfield Cor-

respondence

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SECTION VII.

Books. [Some of these have been returned to Lord Portsmouth.]

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SECTION VIII.

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. [Some of these have been returned to Lord Ports-