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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... lead to practical inconvenience , and consequently Newton is led to modify that supposition . In the Principia he shows that if the moon's orbit be supposed to have no independent eccentricity , its form will be approxi- mately an oval ...
... lead to practical inconvenience , and consequently Newton is led to modify that supposition . In the Principia he shows that if the moon's orbit be supposed to have no independent eccentricity , its form will be approxi- mately an oval ...
Page xix
... lead , and gives as the most fusible that which contains 5 parts of lead +7 of tin + 12 of bismuth . He says that an alloy consisting of 2 parts of lead + 3 of tin + 4 of bismuth will melt in the sun in summer . The alloy which goes by ...
... lead , and gives as the most fusible that which contains 5 parts of lead +7 of tin + 12 of bismuth . He says that an alloy consisting of 2 parts of lead + 3 of tin + 4 of bismuth will melt in the sun in summer . The alloy which goes by ...
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... lead , iron and copper ; action of heat on tartarised antimony . p . 114 , action of spar on distilled liquor of antimony , vinegar , and aquafortis , and of salt from clay of lead mines on do . ; action of nitre on antimony . pp . 115 ...
... lead , iron and copper ; action of heat on tartarised antimony . p . 114 , action of spar on distilled liquor of antimony , vinegar , and aquafortis , and of salt from clay of lead mines on do . ; action of nitre on antimony . pp . 115 ...
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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