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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Part of a Treatise on Geometry ( in Latin ) . 12 . De Compositione Locorum Solidorum . 13. Solutio Problematis Veterum de Loco Solido . 14. Fragments relating to the writings of the Ancients in general , but especially to the Porisms of ...
Part of a Treatise on Geometry ( in Latin ) . 12 . De Compositione Locorum Solidorum . 13. Solutio Problematis Veterum de Loco Solido . 14. Fragments relating to the writings of the Ancients in general , but especially to the Porisms of ...
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Latin translation ( copy ) of the Recensio given in Phil . Trans . No. 342 , differing from that given in the Second Edition of the Commercium Epistolicum . 21. " Ad Lectorem , ' prefixed to the 2nd Edition of the Commercium Epistolicum ...
Latin translation ( copy ) of the Recensio given in Phil . Trans . No. 342 , differing from that given in the Second Edition of the Commercium Epistolicum . 21. " Ad Lectorem , ' prefixed to the 2nd Edition of the Commercium Epistolicum ...
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Latin draft of the Opticks , Book I. , Part I. ( 1 sheet ) . 5 . Answer to objections made to Newton's Optical Theories . Also a scrap with memoranda about the Newtonian telescope . 6 . Scrap . Memorandum of observations on the colours ...
Latin draft of the Opticks , Book I. , Part I. ( 1 sheet ) . 5 . Answer to objections made to Newton's Optical Theories . Also a scrap with memoranda about the Newtonian telescope . 6 . Scrap . Memorandum of observations on the colours ...
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The same in Latin , an abstract ( 2 f . ) . 33. Epistola ad veros Hermetis discipulos . S. Didier . 34. The seven chapters of Hermes , with part of an unfinished letter on the back . 35. Latin letter communicated by Frederick duke of ...
The same in Latin , an abstract ( 2 f . ) . 33. Epistola ad veros Hermetis discipulos . S. Didier . 34. The seven chapters of Hermes , with part of an unfinished letter on the back . 35. Latin letter communicated by Frederick duke of ...
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Another treatise in the form of extracts from various authors , some parts repeated , altered , and fragmentary ; part Latin , part English , but no original matter . 32. Tables of contents to a similar treatise . 33.
Another treatise in the form of extracts from various authors , some parts repeated , altered , and fragmentary ; part Latin , part English , but no original matter . 32. Tables of contents to a similar treatise . 33.
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