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Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 123 (25 March 1676), pp. 556-561 and partially published in H.W. Turnbull (ed), The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, vol. 1 (Cambridge: 1959), p. 421.
The manuscript appears to have suffered damage and the loss of at least one additional sheet at some point after it was received by Oldenburg in early March 1675/6 and before the publication of Horsley's 'Complete Works' (1779-85). Supplied text is taken in all cases from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 123 (25 March 1676), pp. 556-561.
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