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76.

Letter from Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated 11 [June] 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 18r-27v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00394

77.

The First Book of Opticks. Part II (1718)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. The Second Edition, with Additions (London: 1718).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00046

78.

An Extract of a Letter, received very lately, (March 19th) from the Inventor of this new Telescope, from Cambridge

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘An Accompt of a New Catadioptrical Telescope invented by Mr. Newton’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 81 (25 March 1672), pp. 4009-4010.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00030

79.

A second Letter of P. Pardies

Author: Ignace Gaston Pardies

Source: ‘A second Letter of P. Pardies … to Mr. Newton's Answer, made to his first Letter’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 85 (15 July 1672), pp. 5012-5013.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00015

80.

The Third Book of Opticks (1704)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Opticks: Or, A treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures (London: 1704).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00039

81.

Mr. Newton's Letter … containing some more suggestions about his New Telescope

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘Mr. Newton's Letter … containing some more suggestions about his New Telescope, and a Table of Apertures and Charges for the several Lengths of that Instrument’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 82 (22 April 1672), pp. 4032-4034.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00008

82.

Covering letter to the Hypothesis, Dec. 7 1675

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3970.3, f. 459r-v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00120

83.

Robert Hooke's Critique of Newton's Theory of Light and Colors (delivered 1672)

Author: Robert Hooke

Source: ‘Considerations upon Mr. NEWTON'S discourse on light and colours’ in The History of the Royal Society, Thomas Birch (ed.), vol. 3 (London: 1757), pp. 10-15.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00005

84.

Draft of the 'Discourse concerning Light and Colors'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3970.3, ff. 549r-567v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00127

85.

A Letter of the Learn'd Franc. Linus … animadverting upon … Mr. Isaac Newton's Theory of Light and Colors, date 6 October 1674

Author: Francis Linus

Source: ‘A Letter of the Learn'd Franc. Linus … animadverting upon … Mr. Isaac Newton's Theory of Light and Colors’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 110 (25 January 1674/5), pp. 217-219.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00020

86.

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Newton, dated 24 September 1672

Author: Henry Oldenburg

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 28r-29v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00395

87.

Letter to Oldenburg on the lengths and angles of prism images, dated 18 August 1676

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/53, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00323

88.

Mr Newton's Answer to the precedent Letter

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘Mr Newton's Answer to the precedent Letter’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 128 (25 September 1676), pp. 698-705.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00026

89.

An Extract of Mr Isaac Newton's Letter … concerning the Number of Colors

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘An Extract of Mr Isaac Newton's Letter … concerning the Number of Colors, and the Necessity of mixing them all for the production of White’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 97 (6 October 1673), pp. 6108-6111.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00018

90.

A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton … containing his New Theory about Light and Colors

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton … containing his New Theory about Light and Colors’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 80 (19 Feb. 1671/2), pp. 3075-3087.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00006

91.

An answer (to the former Letter) … by the same Parisian Philosopher

Author: Christiaan Huygens

Source: ‘An answer (to the former Letter) … by the same Parisian Philosopher’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 97 (6 October 1673), pp. 6112.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00019

92.

Mr. Newton's Answer to the foregoing Letter [of Ignace Pardies]

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘Mr. Newton's Answer to the foregoing Letter [of Ignace Pardies]’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 85 (15 July 1672), pp. 5014-5018.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00029

93.

The Second Book of Opticks. Part II (1704)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Opticks: Or, A treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures (London: 1704).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00036

94.

An Instrument for observing the Moon's Distance from the Fixt Stars at Sea

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘An Instrument for observing the Moon's Distance from the Fixt Stars at Sea’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 465 (1742), pp. 155-156.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00027

95.

Letter to Oldenburg on delays conducting experiments

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/54, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00324

96.

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Newton, dated 18 January 1672

Author: Henry Oldenburg

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 1r-2v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00388

97.

The Second Book of Opticks. Part III (1718)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. The Second Edition, with Additions (London: 1718).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00049

98.

Liber Secundus, Pars. III (1706)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Optice: Sive De Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus & Coloribus Lucis. Libri Tres. (London: 1706).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00068

99.

A letter of Mr. Franc. Linus … being a reply to the Letter printed in Numb. 110

Author: Francis Linus

Source: ‘A letter of Mr. Franc. Linus … being a reply to the Letter printed in Numb. 110’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 121 (24 January 1675/6), pp. 499-500.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00021

100.

Draft Versions of 'The Queries'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3970.3, ff. 231r-301r, 359r, 477v-478r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00123

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