Catalogue Entry: NATP00121

Draft of the 'Hypothesis Concerning Light and Colors'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. early 1675, c. 9,121 words, 15 pp.

Source: MS Add. 3970.3, ff. 475r-482v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

^[1] See M^r Hooks Micrographia where he speaks of the inflexion of a ray

^{[Editorial Note 1]} The preceding diagram has been written over in the manuscript.

^{[Editorial Note 2]} The following mathematical fragment is written upside down.

^{[Editorial Note 3]} The text on this and the following page is written upside down.

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL - newtonproject@history.ox.ac.uk