Letter to Edmund Halley on the sun's parallax to the moon and other matters

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/60, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Published online: June 2014

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You'l receive y^e 2^d Book on Thursday night or Friday by y^e Coach. I have directed it to be left w^th M^r Hunt at Gresha{illeg}|m| Coll. Pray let me beg y^e favour of a line or two to know of y^e receipt. I am obliged to you for pushing on y^e edition because of peoples expectation, thô otherwise I could be as well satisfied to let it rest a year or two longer. Tis a double favour that you are pleased to double your pains about it. D^r Wallis's papers may be long & I would not give you y^e trouble of transcribing them all. The heads may suffice. The resistence in swift motions is in a duplicate proportion to y^e celerity. The deduction of y^e Suns Parallax from y^e Moons variation I cannot promise now to consider. When Astronomers have examined whether there be such an inequality of her motion in y^e Quadratures as I meti|n|tioned in my last & determined y^e quantity ther{illeg}|e|of, I may take some occasion perhaps to tell them y^e reason. No more at p^rsent from

Yo^r most affectionate humble

Servant

Is. Newton.

Feb. Cambridge.
March 1^st –8 $\frac{6}{7}$ .

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For M^r Edmund Halley
to be left w^th M^r Hunt
in Gresham College in

London.

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Journall-Book R S. n^o. 8.
pag: 132.

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Read Mar 2: 1686.

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