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XIV . Miscellaneous copies of Letters and Papers . . XV . Papers on finding the
Longitude at Sea . . . . . ib . · · : : : . . · · · 11 . SECTION II . CHEMISTRY . * I . Parcels
containing Transcripts from Alchemical authors * II . Papers on Alchemy . . * III .
XIV . Miscellaneous copies of Letters and Papers . . XV . Papers on finding the
Longitude at Sea . . . . . ib . · · : : : . . · · · 11 . SECTION II . CHEMISTRY . * I . Parcels
containing Transcripts from Alchemical authors * II . Papers on Alchemy . . * III .
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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 , and they
...
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 , and they
...
Page xiii
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
on ...
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
on ...
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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 to
see ...
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 to
see ...
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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 | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 29 Sep 2005 |
| Length | 56 pages |
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