Search Results

Searching for category: ‘Biography’ [x]

Limit results to: site | texts | site and texts

Showing 51–75 of 97 | Sorted by: Relevance | Date | Shelfmark | Newton Catalogue ID (ascending | descending)

51.

Three drafts of a letter from John Conduitt to Bernard de Fontenelle offering him Conduitt's Memoir of Newton, and draft of a letter from Conduitt to Horace Walpole

Author: John Conduitt

Source: Keynes Ms. 129.04, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00148

52.

Draft account of Newton's early life

Author: John Conduitt

Source: Keynes Ms. 130.03, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00166

53.

Chapter XXVI

Author: David Brewster

Source: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, vol. 2 (Edinburgh: 1855).

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00087

54.

Notes on Newton's suitability for canonisation if not deification

Author: John Conduitt

Source: Keynes Ms. 130.14, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00176

55.

Account of Newton

Author: William Whiston

Source: A Collection of Authentick Records, pp. 1070-1082 (London: 1728).

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00037

56.

Draft letter from John Conduitt to Bernard de Fontenelle, dated 5 October 1727

Author: John Conduitt

Source: Keynes Ms. 129.08, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00152

57.

Chapter XIV

Author: David Brewster

Source: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, vol. 2 (Edinburgh: 1855).

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00075

58.

Chapter XXIV

Author: David Brewster

Source: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, vol. 2 (Edinburgh: 1855).

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00085

59.

French translation of Conduitt's memoir and of the report of Newton's funeral from the London Gazette

Author: John Conduitt

Source: Keynes Ms. 129.03, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00147

60.

Newton: His Friend: and His Niece

Author: Augustus De Morgan

Source: Newton: His Friend: and His Niece (London: 1885).

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00096

61.

Dedication

Author: David Brewster

Source: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: 1855).

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00012

62.

Chapter XI

Author: David Brewster

Source: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: 1855).

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00127

63.

'Memorandums relating to Sir Isaac Newton'

Author: Abraham de Moivre

Source: Ms. 1075.7, Joseph Halle Schaffner Collection, University of Chicago Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00034

64.

Letter from William Stukeley to John Conduitt, dated 26 June 1727

Author: William Stukeley

Source: Keynes Ms. 136.02, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00157

65.

Draft of a circular letter soliciting material for Conduitt's Life of Newton, dated 16 February 1728

Author: John Conduitt

Source: Keynes Ms. 131a, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00005

66.

Suppressed preface to the Historia cœlestis britannica

Author: John Flamsteed

Source: RGO Ms. 1/32C, ff. 74-93, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00033

67.

Letter from William Stukeley to John Conduitt, dated 15 July 1727

Author: William Stukeley

Source: Keynes Ms. 136.05, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00160

68.

Chapter IV

Author: David Brewster

Source: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: 1855).

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00099

69.

Letter to John Conduitt, dated 26 August 1730

Author: Nicolas Fatio de Duillier

Source: Keynes Ms. 96(H), King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00040

70.

Letter to Professor Robert Smith, dated 16 January 1727/8

Author: Nicholas Wickins

Source: Keynes Ms. 137, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00035

71.

Appendix

Author: David Brewster

Source: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, vol. 2 (Edinburgh: 1855).

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00130

72.

Draft account of Newton's life at Cambridge

Author: John Conduitt

Source: Keynes Ms. 130.04, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00167

73.

Chapter III

Author: David Brewster

Source: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: 1855).

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00098

74.

Review of recent books on Newton

Author: Baden Powell

Source: ‘Sir Isaac Newton’, The Edinburgh Review (1856), pp. 499-534.

Newton Catalogue ID: OTHE00011

75.

Two letters from Humphrey Newton to John Conduitt, dated 17 January and 14 February 1727/8

Author: Humphrey Newton

Source: Keynes Ms. 135, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00033

Showing 51–75 of 97 | Sorted by: Relevance | Date | Shelfmark | Newton Catalogue ID (ascending | descending)

© 2024 The Newton Project

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

Privacy Statement