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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I . Parcels containing Transcripts from Alchemical authors * II . Papers on Alchemy * III . Books on Alchemy IV . Notes of Experiments V. Miscellaneous Notes VI . A MS . Note - book 19 ib . 20 21 * These have been returned to Lord ...
I . Parcels containing Transcripts from Alchemical authors * II . Papers on Alchemy * III . Books on Alchemy IV . Notes of Experiments V. Miscellaneous Notes VI . A MS . Note - book 19 ib . 20 21 * These have been returned to Lord ...
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... on the contents of the collection , Lord Portsmouth expressed a wish that the papers relating to Theology , Chronology , History , and Alchemy , should be returned to him at Hurstbourne , where they would be carefully preserved .
... on the contents of the collection , Lord Portsmouth expressed a wish that the papers relating to Theology , Chronology , History , and Alchemy , should be returned to him at Hurstbourne , where they would be carefully preserved .
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and Alchemy , Chronology , History , and Theology . Many of the Mathematical papers contain Newton's preparations for the Principia , and notes which spring out of questions that were started by his correspondents .
and Alchemy , Chronology , History , and Theology . Many of the Mathematical papers contain Newton's preparations for the Principia , and notes which spring out of questions that were started by his correspondents .
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Newton's manuscripts on Alchemy are of very little interest in themselves . He seems to have made transcripts from a variety of authors , and , if we may judge by the number of praxes of their contents which he began and left unfinished ...
Newton's manuscripts on Alchemy are of very little interest in themselves . He seems to have made transcripts from a variety of authors , and , if we may judge by the number of praxes of their contents which he began and left unfinished ...
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I . FIVE PARCELS CONTAINING TRANSCRIPTS FROM VARIOUS ALCHEMICAL AUTHORS IN NEWTON'S HANDWRITING , WITH NOTES AND ABSTRACTS . 9 ( 1 ) 1. Notes out of Philalethes . 2. On Ripley's Vision ; ' Sir G. Ripley his letter to K. Ed . IV ...
I . FIVE PARCELS CONTAINING TRANSCRIPTS FROM VARIOUS ALCHEMICAL AUTHORS IN NEWTON'S HANDWRITING , WITH NOTES AND ABSTRACTS . 9 ( 1 ) 1. Notes out of Philalethes . 2. On Ripley's Vision ; ' Sir G. Ripley his letter to K. Ed . IV ...
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