Newton’s Scientific Papers

26.

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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27.

Mr. Isaac Newton's Considerations on the former Reply [of Francis Linus]

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 13 Nov. 1675 (published 24 Jan. 1675/6), in English, c. 890 words, 2pp.

Source: ‘ Mr. Isaac Newton's Considerations on the former Reply [of Francis Linus]’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 121 (24 January 1675/6), pp. 501-502.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00022

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28.

Answer to Huygens' critique of Newton's new theory of light and colours, dated 10 June 1673

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 10 June 1673, in English, c. 2,714 words, 4 pp.

Source: EL/N1/47, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00317

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29.

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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30.

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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31.

Printed Copy of a Letter from John Bernoulli to Sir Isaac Newton, with Newton's Observations on it

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1713, in Latin and English with a little French, c. 13,847 words, 13 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 473r-485v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00378

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32.

Optical diagrams

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. early 1675, c. 12 words, 2 ff.

Source: MS Add. 9597/2/18/89-90, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00287

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33.

Mr. Isaac Newton's Considerations upon part of a Letter of Monsieur De Bercé

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 20 May 1672, in English, c. 1,376 words, 4pp.

Source: ‘Mr. Isaac Newton's Considerations upon part of a Letter of Monsieur De Bercé … concerning the Cata drioptricalCatadioptrical Telescope, pretended to be improv'd and refined by M. Cassegrain’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 83 (20 May 1672), pp. 4056-4059.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00010

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34.

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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35.

Letter to Henry Oldenburg, 19 March 1671

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 19 March 1671, in English, c. 526 words, 2 pp.

Source: EL/N1/36, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00308

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36.

References to the original letters contained, or intended to be contained, in the Commercium Epistolicum

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1710-1720, in Latin and English with some Greek and French, c. 23,511 words, 76 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 263r-19:vi(v), Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00363

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37.

Bernouilli's problem in the Acta Eruditorum for October 1698

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1698, in Latin and English with a little Greek, c. 1,435 words, 3 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 369r-371v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00369

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38.

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. (London: 1687)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1687, in Latin, c. 91,513 words.

Source: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (London: 1687).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00071

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Front Matter to the Principia (1687)
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Definitiones (1687)
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Axiomata Sive Leges Motus (1687)
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De Motu Corporum (Liber Primus) (1687)
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De Motu Corporum (Liber Secundus) (1687)
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De Munde Systemate (Liber Tertius)
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39.

'De motu corporum in gyrum'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Late 1684, in Latin, c. 3,938 words, 9pp.

Source: MS Add. 3965.7, ff. 55-62*, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00089

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40.

Draft Versions of 'The Queries'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1704-1718, mainly in English, with some Latin and French, c. 67,064 words, 98pp.

Source: MS Add. 3970.3, ff. 231r-301r, 359r, 477v-478r, 610r-612r, 618r-623r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00055

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41.

Copy of an extract of a letter to John Collins, dated 10 December 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 10 December 1672, in English, c. 496 words, 2 pp.

Source: EL/N1/45, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00315

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42.

Errata for Raphson's History of Fluxions

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1710-1720, in Latin and English, c. 235 words, 1 f.

Source: MS Add. 3968, f. 593r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00384

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43.

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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44.

Letter from Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated 28 November 1676

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 28 November 1676, c. 1,322 words.

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 38r-39v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00400

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45.

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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46.

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. (Cambridge: 1713)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1713, in Latin, c. 102,337 words.

Source: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Cambridge: 1713).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00072

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Front Matter to the Principia (1713)
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Definitiones (1713)
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Axiomata Sive Leges Motus (1713)
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De Motu Corporum (Liber Primus) (1713)
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De Motu Corporum (Liber Secundus) (1713)
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De Munde Systemate (Liber Tertius) (1713)
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47.

History of the Method of Fluxions

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1700-1712, in English with some Latin and French, c. 23,958 words, 43pp on 26 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 146r-171r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00356

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48.

The October 1666 Tract on Fluxions

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: October 1666, c. 9,937 words, 29 pp.

Source: MS Add. 3958.3, ff. 48v-63v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00100

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49.

Draft E of the 'Scholium Generale'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. January 1712/3, in Latin, c. 860 words, 2pp.

Source: MS Add. 3965.12, f. 365, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00061

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50.

Response to Linus's second letter concerning Newton's new theory of light and colours, dated 13 November 1675

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 13 November 1675, in English, c. 1,105 words, 2 pp.

Source: EL/N1/48, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00318

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