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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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 . It must be recollected that Newton practically gave up his mathematical ...
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 . It must be recollected that Newton practically gave up his mathematical ...
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It is interesting to find among the papers on the Lunar Theory a good many containing Newton's calculations relating to the inequalities which are described in the above scholium . These papers are unfortunately very imperfect ...
It is interesting to find among the papers on the Lunar Theory a good many containing Newton's calculations relating to the inequalities which are described in the above scholium . These papers are unfortunately very imperfect ...
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The papers also contain a long list of propositions in the Lunar Theory which were evidently intended to be inserted in a second edition , upon which Newton appears to have been engaged in 1694. This list , together with the two lemmas ...
The papers also contain a long list of propositions in the Lunar Theory which were evidently intended to be inserted in a second edition , upon which Newton appears to have been engaged in 1694. This list , together with the two lemmas ...
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He must have seen , also , at the same time , that the MS . was an old one , and although it does not contain the pointed letters which Newton sometimes but by no means invariably employed to denote Fluxions , Leibnitz could hardly fail ...
He must have seen , also , at the same time , that the MS . was an old one , and although it does not contain the pointed letters which Newton sometimes but by no means invariably employed to denote Fluxions , Leibnitz could hardly fail ...
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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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