Newton’s Scientific Papers

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Draft of the 'Discourse Concerning Light and Colors'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. early 1675, c. 16,675 words.

Source: MS Add. 3970.3, ff. 501r-517r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00122

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Copy of a French translation of a letter from John Keill to John Bernouilli

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1710-1720, in French with a little English and Latin, c. 11,725 words, 19 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 339r-367v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00367

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Historical Annotations on the Elogium of Leibniz

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1700-1727, in English with Latin and French, c. 10,667 words, 10 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 372r-381v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00370

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

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1718, in English, c. 99,960 words.

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

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00043

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Front Matter to the Opticks (1718)
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The First Book of Opticks. Part I (1718)
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The First Book of Opticks. Part II (1718)
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The Second Book of Opticks. Part I (1718)
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The Second Book of Opticks. Part II (1718)
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The Second Book of Opticks. Part III (1718)
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The Second Book of Opticks. Part IV (1718)
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The Third Book of Opticks (1718)
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Incomplete copy of de Quadratura Curvarum

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1704, c. 1,597 words, 12 ff.

Source: MS Add. 9597/2/18/83-88, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00286

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Unarranged fragments, mostly relating to the dispute with Leibniz

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1665-1727, in French, English and Latin, c. 113,053 words, 16 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 594r-619v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00385

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Letter to Henry Oldenburg, 16 March 1671

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 16 March 1671, in English, c. 223 words, 2 pp.

Source: EL/N1/35, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00307

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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. (London: 1726)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1726, in Latin, c. 104,421 words.

Source: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (London: 1726).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00073

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Front Matter to the Principia (1726)
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Definitiones (1726)
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Axiomata Sive Leges Motus (1726)
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De Motu Corporum (Liber Primus) (1726)
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De Motu Corporum (Liber Secundus) (1726)
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De Munde Systemate (Liber Tertius) (1726)
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Letter from Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated 21 May 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 21 May 1672, c. 426 words.

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 14r-15v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00392

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

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Published Oct.-Nov. 1742, in English, c. 541 words, 2pp.

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

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Annotations in Commercium Epistolicum

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1715-1720, in English and Latin, with a little French, c. 9,809 words, 17 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 236r-252v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00358

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Draft A of the 'Scholium Generale'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. January 1712/3, mainly in Latin, with some English, c. 1,310 words, 4pp.

Source: MS Add. 3965.12, ff. 357-358, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00057

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Notae ad Acta Eruditorum

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1700-1712, in Latin and English, c. 4,954 words, 6 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 14r-19v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00348

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Note about his reflecting telescope

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. early 1672, in English and French, c. 147 words, 1 p.

Source: EL/N1/50, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00320

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Enarratio plenior scholii praecedentis

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1700-1712, in Latin with some English, c. 8,276 words, 19 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 38r-56v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00350

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'Ad Lectorem' prefixed to the second edition of the Commercium epistolicum

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1710-1720, Latin with some English and French, c. 11,061 words, 20 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 312r-331v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00365

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'De motu sphæricorum corporum in fluidis'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Late 1684, in Latin, c. 5,101 words, 15 pp.

Source: MS Add. 3965.7, ff. 40-54, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00090

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Printed Title-page of the first Edition of the Commercium Epistolicum

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1712, in Latin with some English, c. 1,527 words, 7 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 3r-9v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00346

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Animadversions on Pierre Rémond de Monmort's letter to Nicholas Bernouilli (20 August 1713)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1713, in English and Latin, c. 3,817 words, 8 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 465r-472v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00377

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Mathematical Notebook

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1664 - c. 1665, c. 47,158 words, 170 pp.

Source: MS Add. 4000, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00128

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Draft C of the 'Scholium Generale'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. January 1712/3, mainly in Latin, with some English, c. 2,604 words, 4pp.

Source: MS Add. 3965.12, ff. 361-362, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00059

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Mr. Newtons Answer to the foregoing Letter [of Christiaan Huygens]

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 21 July 1673, in English, c. 1,738 words, 6pp.

Source: ‘Mr. Newtons Answer to the foregoing Letter [of Christiaan Huygens]’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 96 (21 July 1673), pp. 6087-6092.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00017

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