Newton’s Religious Writings

'Irenicum, or Ecclesiastical Polyty tending to Peace'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: post-1710, in English, c. 22,500 words, 40 pp.

Source: Keynes Ms. 3, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00003

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Fragment on the history of apostasy

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: mid 1690s, in English, c. 4,618 words, 7 pp. on 5 ff. of which one blank.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 18, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00061

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Three bundles of notes for a work on the ancients' physico-theology, related to 'Theologiæ Gentilis Origines Philosophicæ'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1680s and early 1690s, mostly Latin with some English, c. 51,358 words, 60 ff.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 17, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00060

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• Notes on ancient religions
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• Notes and drafts relating to 'Theologiæ Gentilis Origines Philosophicæ'
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• Notes on ancient religions
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Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: mainly in English with Latin citations and some Greek and Hebrew, c. 76,500 words, 129 pp. on 122 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3989, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00091

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'Out of Cudworth' (early 1680s)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1,500 words, 4 pp.

Source: fN563Z, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00118

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Drafts of the 'Short Chronicle' and 'Original of Monarchies'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1701-2 and later, in English with some Latin, Greek and Hebrew, c. 48,810 words, 159 ff.

Source: Ms. 361(1), New College Library, Oxford, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00096

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• Drafts of the 'Short Chronicle'
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• Cataloguer's Notes for New College Oxford Ms. 361(1)B
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• John Conduitt's description of Newton's draft of 'The Original of Monarchies'
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• Scheme of the contents of 'The Original of Monarchies'
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• Drafts of various parts of 'The Original of Monarchies'
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'The Original of Monarchies'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1701-2, in English, c. 13,099 words, 30 pp.

Source: Keynes Ms. 146, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00040

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A Dissertation upon the Sacred Cubit of the Jews and the Cubits of the several Nations

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1737, in English, c. 6,185 words.

Source: John Greaves, Miscellaneous Works of Mr. John Greaves, Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford, vol. 2 (London: 1737), pp. 405-433.

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00276

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