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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Letters from Cotes to Newton on the 2nd edition of the ' Principia ' 37 X. Rough drafts of some of Newton's Letters to Cotes 38 XI . Letters of Keill to Newton 39 XII . Letters of Pemberton to Newton while editing the 3rd edition of the ...
Letters from Cotes to Newton on the 2nd edition of the ' Principia ' 37 X. Rough drafts of some of Newton's Letters to Cotes 38 XI . Letters of Keill to Newton 39 XII . Letters of Pemberton to Newton while editing the 3rd edition of the ...
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The whole collection was inspected by Dr Horsley , who edited in 1779 the well - known edition of Newton's works in five quarto volumes . He left a few unimportant remarks on some of the papers , but he made no use of them in his ...
The whole collection was inspected by Dr Horsley , who edited in 1779 the well - known edition of Newton's works in five quarto volumes . He left a few unimportant remarks on some of the papers , but he made no use of them in his ...
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It must be recollected that Newton practically gave up his mathematical studies after 1696 , even the superintendence of the second edition of the Principia being given to Cotes , and thus that after this date there is little of value ...
It must be recollected that Newton practically gave up his mathematical studies after 1696 , even the superintendence of the second edition of the Principia being given to Cotes , and thus that after this date there is little of value ...
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The result stated in the scholium to the 1st Edition appears to have been found by a more complete and probably a much more complicated investigation than that contained in the extant MSS . The papers also contain a long list of ...
The result stated in the scholium to the 1st Edition appears to have been found by a more complete and probably a much more complicated investigation than that contained in the extant MSS . The papers also contain a long list of ...
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... had been accused of plagiarism , or else that he was not sorry to find a pretext for attributing to himself the invention of the new Calculus , contrary to the avowal he had made in the Scholium in the 1st Edition of the Principia .
... had been accused of plagiarism , or else that he was not sorry to find a pretext for attributing to himself the invention of the new Calculus , contrary to the avowal he had made in the Scholium in the 1st Edition of the Principia .
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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 | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 18 Nov 2015 |
| Length | 56 pages |
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