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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... answer pretty nearly . All this was in the two plague years of 1665 and 1666 ' , for in those days I was in the prime of my age for invention , and minded Mathematicks and Philosophy more than at any time since . What Mr Hugens has ...
... answer pretty nearly . All this was in the two plague years of 1665 and 1666 ' , for in those days I was in the prime of my age for invention , and minded Mathematicks and Philosophy more than at any time since . What Mr Hugens has ...
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... answered your letter sooner but that I wanted time to examin this Theorem and the Lem . 1 in the 3d Book . I do not see how to derive the resistance of the air from the ascent of water . The reasoning which must be about it seems too ...
... answered your letter sooner but that I wanted time to examin this Theorem and the Lem . 1 in the 3d Book . I do not see how to derive the resistance of the air from the ascent of water . The reasoning which must be about it seems too ...
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... Answer to objections made to Newton's Optical Theories . Also a scrap with memoranda about the Newtonian telescope . 6. Scrap . Memorandum of observations on the colours of thick plates . 7. Fragments on Light and Heat . 8. Proposed ...
... Answer to objections made to Newton's Optical Theories . Also a scrap with memoranda about the Newtonian telescope . 6. Scrap . Memorandum of observations on the colours of thick plates . 7. Fragments on Light and Heat . 8. Proposed ...
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... answer of the Vice - chancellor and Senate of the Univer- sity of Cambridge to the question why they did not admit Alban Francis to the degree of M. A. 7. The answer to some questions propounded by the Lord Chancellor at the appearance ...
... answer of the Vice - chancellor and Senate of the Univer- sity of Cambridge to the question why they did not admit Alban Francis to the degree of M. A. 7. The answer to some questions propounded by the Lord Chancellor at the appearance ...
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... answer of the Fellows of S. Mary Magdalen College , [ Oxford ] , to the question why they did not elect and admit Mr. Anthony Farmer to be President of the same College in the room of Dr. Clarke deceased , in complyance with his ...
... answer of the Fellows of S. Mary Magdalen College , [ Oxford ] , to the question why they did not elect and admit Mr. Anthony Farmer to be President of the same College in the room of Dr. Clarke deceased , in complyance with his ...
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