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 CambridgeUniversity Press, 1888 - 56 pages |
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... calculations themselves , as he considers them too complicated and not sufficiently accurate . In the second edition this short scholium is replaced by a long one , in which Newton states many of the principal results of the Lunar ...
... calculations themselves , as he considers them too complicated and not sufficiently accurate . In the second edition this short scholium is replaced by a long one , in which Newton states many of the principal results of the Lunar ...
Page xii
... calculations relating to the inequalities which are described in the above scholium . These papers are unfortunately very imperfect , and they have greatly suffered from fire and damp , but there is enough re- maining to give a general ...
... calculations relating to the inequalities which are described in the above scholium . These papers are unfortunately very imperfect , and they have greatly suffered from fire and damp , but there is enough re- maining to give a general ...
Page xiv
... calculations , there must have been a considerable mass of papers devoted to them which have not been preserved ... calculation the path of a ray of light through the atmosphere is divided into a number of parts subtending given ...
... calculations , there must have been a considerable mass of papers devoted to them which have not been preserved ... calculation the path of a ray of light through the atmosphere is divided into a number of parts subtending given ...
Page xv
... calculation requires an approximate knowledge of the path of the ray , whereas this path is at first unknown , and cannot be accurately determined without a knowledge of the refraction itself . Newton solves the difficulty by an ...
... calculation requires an approximate knowledge of the path of the ray , whereas this path is at first unknown , and cannot be accurately determined without a knowledge of the refraction itself . Newton solves the difficulty by an ...
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... Calculation of the Area of the Hyperbola . On the Laws of Motion . On the Laws of Reflection . On Motion in a Cycloid . 6. Problems in Geometrical Optics . ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS . ( Holograph . ) 1. Observations on N. 1 SECTION I. ...
... Calculation of the Area of the Hyperbola . On the Laws of Motion . On the Laws of Reflection . On Motion in a Cycloid . 6. Problems in Geometrical Optics . ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS . ( Holograph . ) 1. Observations on N. 1 SECTION I. ...
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1st Edition 2nd Edition 99 July aequalis alchemical alloys angulus antimony Apogaei April April 29 aqua fortis Arthur Storer Bernouilli bismuth calculation Cambridge chemical Chronology Collins Comet Commercium Epistolicum Conduitt containing copy Corr Curves David Gregory distantias draft of Newton's Edleston Ellipseos erit experiments extracts from Boyle Flamsteed to Newton Fontenelle given Halley to Newton Holograph Horsley impulsum July 11 June Latin latus rectum Leibnitz letter from Newton Letter of Newton linea Lord Portsmouth Luna radio Lunar Theory Maccl Method of Fluxions MISCELLANEOUS moon's apogee motion motus Newton to Varignon Newton's hand Newton's method numbered observations Oldenburg Oldenburg to Newton Optical orbe orbit papers relating plano immobili Principia Printed by Brewster PROP Propositions quam Luna recipe refraction salammoniac scholium Scrap Sept solis sublimate Terram treatise Varignon to Newton various authors written دو وو