Catalogue Entry: THEM00085

Fragment of a table apparently relating to time differences

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1699?, 1 p.

Source: Ms. 737, The Babson College Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Custodial History

Described in the Babson catalogue as part of SL306, which was bought at the Sotheby sale by 'Court' for £7.10s.: the fragmentary nature of this document and the brevity of the Sotheby catalogue description of the lot ('miscellaneous notes, arithmetical calculations, etc., mostly on scraps of paper') preclude confident identification. Bought by Babson College from Scherling, Holland and Heller of New York in April 1953 for $70. In 2006, following the closure of the Dibner Institute, the holdings of the Babson Collection were transferred on permanent loan to the Hungtington Library, San Marino, California.

Sotheby Lot

Part of SL306?

Contents

Possibly connected with Newton's proposed calendar reform (cf. Brewster (1855), 2: 311 and Yahuda Var. 1 Ms. 24).