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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These lemmas are carefully written out , as if in preparation for the press , and they were probably at first intended to form part of the Principia . Next follows the application of the lemmas to the particular case of the Moon ...
These lemmas are carefully written out , as if in preparation for the press , and they were probably at first intended to form part of the Principia . Next follows the application of the lemmas to the particular case of the Moon ...
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The result stated in the scholium to the 1st Edition appears to have been found by a more complete and probably a much more complicated investigation than that contained in the extant MSS . The papers also contain a long list of ...
The result stated in the scholium to the 1st Edition appears to have been found by a more complete and probably a much more complicated investigation than that contained in the extant MSS . The papers also contain a long list of ...
Page xv
The draft has no date , but from internal evidence it was probably written about 1694. A small part of the letter has perished but it is very easy to restore the missing portion . The letter will be found in the Appendix at the end of ...
The draft has no date , but from internal evidence it was probably written about 1694. A small part of the letter has perished but it is very easy to restore the missing portion . The letter will be found in the Appendix at the end of ...
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... In 1666 Newton was in the 24th year of his age . 2 Probably this should be changed to 1679 and 1680 . 3 Probably this should be changed to 1684 and 1685 . H. R. LUARD . G. G. STOKES . J. C. xviii PREFACE .
... In 1666 Newton was in the 24th year of his age . 2 Probably this should be changed to 1679 and 1680 . 3 Probably this should be changed to 1684 and 1685 . H. R. LUARD . G. G. STOKES . J. C. xviii PREFACE .
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the events to which it relates , Newton appears to have made one or two mistakes of date , and probably for this reason has drawn his pen through the entire passage . Newton's manuscripts on Alchemy are of very little interest in ...
the events to which it relates , Newton appears to have made one or two mistakes of date , and probably for this reason has drawn his pen through the entire passage . Newton's manuscripts on Alchemy are of very little interest in ...
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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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