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 Cambridge |
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IT T has been long known that Sir Isaac Newton left , at his death , a large mass of papers , consisting partly of copies ... By the marriage of their only child to the first Lord Lymington , they passed into the hands of the first Lord ...
IT T has been long known that Sir Isaac Newton left , at his death , a large mass of papers , consisting partly of copies ... By the marriage of their only child to the first Lord Lymington , they passed into the hands of the first Lord ...
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On account of his connection with the Newton family , Lord Portsmouth also naturally wished to have returned to him all the ... It was again placed in the hands of Sir David Brewster , for his second and elaborate life of Newton in 1855 ...
On account of his connection with the Newton family , Lord Portsmouth also naturally wished to have returned to him all the ... It was again placed in the hands of Sir David Brewster , for his second and elaborate life of Newton in 1855 ...
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On the other hand Leibnitz , without avowing himself the author of the article in the Leipsic Acts , denied that it really bore the meaning attributed to it by Newton , and maintained that Newton had either been deceived by a false ...
On the other hand Leibnitz , without avowing himself the author of the article in the Leipsic Acts , denied that it really bore the meaning attributed to it by Newton , and maintained that Newton had either been deceived by a false ...
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There can now be no doubt , however , that Newton was right in thinking that Leibnitz had been shown this MS . , since a copy of part of it , in Leibnitz's hand , has been found among the papers of Leibnitz preserved in the Royal ...
There can now be no doubt , however , that Newton was right in thinking that Leibnitz had been shown this MS . , since a copy of part of it , in Leibnitz's hand , has been found among the papers of Leibnitz preserved in the Royal ...
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the events to which it relates , Newton appears to have made one or two mistakes of date , and probably for this reason has drawn his pen through the entire ... His power of writing a beautiful hand was evidently a snare to him .
the events to which it relates , Newton appears to have made one or two mistakes of date , and probably for this reason has drawn his pen through the entire ... His power of writing a beautiful hand was evidently a snare to him .
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| Title | 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 Cambridge |
| Author | Isaac Newton |
| Publisher | University Press, 1888 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Aug 2008 |
| Length | 56 pages |
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