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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... interesting to find among the papers on the Lunar Theory a good many containing Newton's calculations relating to the inequalities which are described in the above scholium . These papers are unfortunately very imperfect , and they have ...
... interesting to find among the papers on the Lunar Theory a good many containing Newton's calculations relating to the inequalities which are described in the above scholium . These papers are unfortunately very imperfect , and they have ...
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... interesting article in the Journal des Savants for 1836 , M. Biot directs particular attention to this subject , and tries to repro- duce the method which Newton may be supposed to have employed in order to calculate his table of ...
... interesting article in the Journal des Savants for 1836 , M. Biot directs particular attention to this subject , and tries to repro- duce the method which Newton may be supposed to have employed in order to calculate his table of ...
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... interesting information respecting the times when several of his discoveries were made . Thus in a passage , which has been quoted by Brewster2 , he states that he wrote the Principia in seventeen or eighteen months , begin- ning in the ...
... interesting information respecting the times when several of his discoveries were made . Thus in a passage , which has been quoted by Brewster2 , he states that he wrote the Principia in seventeen or eighteen months , begin- ning in the ...
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... student of Newton's works has all the scientific correspondence at his command . CAMBRIDGE , 26 May 1888 . H. R. LUARD . G. G. STOKES . J. C. ADAMS . G. D. LIVEING . APPENDIX TO THE PREFACE . It may be interesting to XX PREFACE .
... student of Newton's works has all the scientific correspondence at his command . CAMBRIDGE , 26 May 1888 . H. R. LUARD . G. G. STOKES . J. C. ADAMS . G. D. LIVEING . APPENDIX TO THE PREFACE . It may be interesting to XX PREFACE .
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... interesting to give a few extracts from the Newton papers on some of the subjects which have been referred to in the above Preface . I. II . These relate to The form of the Solid of Least Resistance . Principia , Lib . II . Prop . 35 ...
... interesting to give a few extracts from the Newton papers on some of the subjects which have been referred to in the above Preface . I. II . These relate to The form of the Solid of Least Resistance . Principia , Lib . II . Prop . 35 ...
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