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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Thus in a passage , which has been quoted by Brewster , he states that he wrote the Principia in seventeen or eighteen months , beginning in the end of December 1684 , and sending it to the Royal Society in May 1686 , excepting that ...
Thus in a passage , which has been quoted by Brewster , he states that he wrote the Principia in seventeen or eighteen months , beginning in the end of December 1684 , and sending it to the Royal Society in May 1686 , excepting that ...
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“ In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the method of approximating Series and the Rule for reducing any dignity of any Binomial into such a series . The same year in May I found the method of tangents of Gregory and Slusius ...
“ In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the method of approximating Series and the Rule for reducing any dignity of any Binomial into such a series . The same year in May I found the method of tangents of Gregory and Slusius ...
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Tabula Smaragdina , and De metallorum metamorphosi ( a leaf missing at the beginning ) . 9. Observanda . Instructio de Arbore Solari . Arca Arcani . Epistola Grassæi . Occultæ naturæ mysterium . Appendix ad aurum potabile .
Tabula Smaragdina , and De metallorum metamorphosi ( a leaf missing at the beginning ) . 9. Observanda . Instructio de Arbore Solari . Arca Arcani . Epistola Grassæi . Occultæ naturæ mysterium . Appendix ad aurum potabile .
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On the back the beginning of a letter in which mention is made of Mr Pepys asking Sir I. N. for a method of finding the longitude at sea . 3. List of Alchemical works . A classification of the same with dates .
On the back the beginning of a letter in which mention is made of Mr Pepys asking Sir I. N. for a method of finding the longitude at sea . 3. List of Alchemical works . A classification of the same with dates .
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Fragment out of some treatise with pictures - no beginning or end . 22. Recipes for lutes , with some addresses on the back . 23. Recipes for some alchemical medicines , with address of a druggist . 24. Other alchemical operations , one ...
Fragment out of some treatise with pictures - no beginning or end . 22. Recipes for lutes , with some addresses on the back . 23. Recipes for some alchemical medicines , with address of a druggist . 24. Other alchemical operations , one ...
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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 Michigan |
| Digitized | 16 Jan 2013 |
| Length | 56 pages |
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