Newton’s Scientific Papers

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

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 3 April 1673 (published 6 Oct. 1673), in English, c. 1,551 words, 4pp.

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

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'General Scholium' from the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1729)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1729, in English, c. 2,193 words.

Source: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, vol. 2 (London: 1729).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00056

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Letter from Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated 19 February 1676

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 19 February 1676, c. 663 words.

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 36r-37v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00399

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Notes on the Correspondence in Wallis's Works, Vol. 3

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1700-1712, in Latin with some English, c. 3,168 words, 4 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 10r-13v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00347

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

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 11 July [June] 1672, c. 8,372 words.

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

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00394

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Remarks on Leibniz's first letter to the Abbe Conti

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1710-1720, in English and Latin with a little French, c. 5,448 words, 8 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 412r-419r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00372

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An extract of another Letter of Mr. Newton

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 10 Jan. 1675/6 (published 24 Jan. 1675/6), in English, c. 934 words, 2pp.

Source: ‘An extract of another Letter of Mr. Newton’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 121 (24 January 1675/6), pp. 503-504.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00023

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The Observations, made upon these proposals [of Robert Moray]

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 20 May 1672, in English, c. 753 words, 3pp.

Source: ‘The Observations, made upon these proposals’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 83 (20 May 1672), pp. 4060-4062.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00053

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Various fragmentary astronomical notes, including Edmond Halley's observations on a comet

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: after 14 November 1680, in Latin with a few words of English, c. 300 words, 2 pp on 1 f.

Source: MA 7247, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00402

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Letter to Oldenburg concerning Thomas Mace's Otocousticon, dated 30 November 1675

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 30 November 1675, in English, c. 283 words, 2 pp.

Source: EL/N1/49, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00319

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Letter to Louis d'Aumont, dated 3 June 1714

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 3 June 1714, in English, c. 136 words, 2 pp.

Source: EL/N1/65, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00336

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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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An Account of the Systeme of the World described in Mr Newton's Mathematicall Principles of Philosophy

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1687 or later, in English, c. 1,281 words, 4 pp on 4 folios.

Source: MS Add. 4005.7, ff. 39-42, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00291

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De Gravitatione et æquipondio fluidorum

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. mid-1680s, in Latin, c. 9,428 words, 40 pp.

Source: MS Add. 4003, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00093

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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)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1704, in English, c. 81,571 words.

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: NATP00031

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• Front Matter to the Opticks (1704)
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• The First Book of Opticks. Part I (1704)
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• The First Book of Opticks. Part II (1704)
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• The Second Book of Opticks. Part I (1704)
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• The Second Book of Opticks. Part II (1704)
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• The Second Book of Opticks. Part III (1704)
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• The Second Book of Opticks. Part IV (1704)
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• The Third Book of Opticks (1704)
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Draft of the 'Discourse concerning Light and Colors'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. early 1675, c. 16,292 words, 2 pp.

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

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00127

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A particular Answer of Mr. Isaak Newton to Mr. Linus his Letter

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 29 Feb. 1675/6 (published 25 March 1676), in English, c. 2,362 words, 6pp.

Source: ‘A particular Answer of Mr. Isaak Newton to Mr. Linus his Letter, printed in Numb. 121. p. 499’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 123 (25 March 1676), pp. 556-561.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00024

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Extract from a letter from Leibniz complaining of an attack on his "bonne foi"

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1710-1720, in French, c. 174 words, 1 f.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 368r-368v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00368

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'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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Copy of an extract from Newton to John Collins, dated 10 December 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 10 December 1672, in English with a little Latin, c. 2,616 words, 5 pp. on 3 ff.

Source: EL/N1/42-44, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00314

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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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Copy of a letter to John Collins, dated 9 April 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 9 April 1672, in English, c. 1,365 words, 4 pp.

Source: EL/N1/46, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00316

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Draft letter from Sir Isaac Newton to Pierre des Maizeaux

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1710-1720, in English and Latin with a little French, c. 15,132 words, 18 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 420r-437v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00373

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

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1706, in Latin, c. 81,688 words.

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

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00062

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• Front Matter to the Optice (1706)
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• Liber Primus, Pars. I (1706)
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• Liber Primus, Pars. II (1706)
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• Liber Secundus, Pars. I (1706)
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• Liber Secundus, Pars. II (1706)
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• Liber Secundus, Pars. III (1706)
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• Liber Secundus, Pars. IV (1706)
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• Liber Tertius (1706)
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Letter to to Henry Oldenburg, dated 30 July 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 30 July 1672, in English, c. 187 words, 2 pp.

Source: EL/N1/41, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00313

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