A Catalogue of the Portsmouth Collection of Books and Papers Written by Or Belonging to Sir Isaac Newton: The Scientific Portion of which Has Been Presented by the Earl of Portsmouth to the University of CambridgeUniversity Press, 1888 - 56 pages |
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... Brewster , for his second and elaborate life of Newton in 1855 ; he made some use of the scattered mathematical notes and papers , and printed a considerable portion of the correspondence . The character of the collection will be made ...
... Brewster , for his second and elaborate life of Newton in 1855 ; he made some use of the scattered mathematical notes and papers , and printed a considerable portion of the correspondence . The character of the collection will be made ...
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... Newton's pro- digious mental activity at an earlier period of his life . 1 See Gerhardt , Mathem . Schriften Leibnitzens , 1. p . 7 . 2 Brewster's Life , Vol . 1. p . 471 . " In the beginning of the year 1665 I found 62 PREFACE . xvii.
... Newton's pro- digious mental activity at an earlier period of his life . 1 See Gerhardt , Mathem . Schriften Leibnitzens , 1. p . 7 . 2 Brewster's Life , Vol . 1. p . 471 . " In the beginning of the year 1665 I found 62 PREFACE . xvii.
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... Brewster . Harris , according to Brewster , published from a copy in the Macclesfield Collection ; but the copy seems to have been identical with that in this book , except that a paragraph at the end is omitted . Brewster overlooked ...
... Brewster . Harris , according to Brewster , published from a copy in the Macclesfield Collection ; but the copy seems to have been identical with that in this book , except that a paragraph at the end is omitted . Brewster overlooked ...
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... Brewster's Life of Newton has been placed with the collection , in which the letters there given have been carefully collated with their originals ; so that prac- tically the student of Newton's works has all the scientific ...
... Brewster's Life of Newton has been placed with the collection , in which the letters there given have been carefully collated with their originals ; so that prac- tically the student of Newton's works has all the scientific ...
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... Brewster , ii . 283. ) 18. Copy in Newton's hand of Leibnitz's letter to Hans Sloan , 29th Dec. , 1711 . 19. References to the original letters contained , or intended to be contained , in the Commercium Epistolicum . 20. Latin ...
... Brewster , ii . 283. ) 18. Copy in Newton's hand of Leibnitz's letter to Hans Sloan , 29th Dec. , 1711 . 19. References to the original letters contained , or intended to be contained , in the Commercium Epistolicum . 20. Latin ...
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