Newton’s Scientific Papers

1.

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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2.

An Answer to this Letter [of Francis Linus], written 5 December 1674

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 5 December 1674, in English, c. 140 words, 1p.

Source: ‘An Answer to this Letter [of Francis Linus]’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 110 (25 January 1674/5), pp. 219.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00054

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3.

Letter to Oldenburg answering Linus's second letter on Newton's new doctrine of light and colour

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 29 February 1676, in English, c. 2,458 words, 2 pp.

Source: EL/N1/51, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00321

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4.

Draft of the 'Discourse Concerning Light and Colors'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. early 1675, c. 12,266 words, 2 pp.

Source: MS Add. 3970.3, ff. 519r-529r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00126

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5.

Hypothesis explaining the properties of light

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1675, in English, c. 31,724 words, 58pp.

Source: The History of the Royal Society, Thomas Birch (ed.), vol. 3 (London: 1757), pp. 247-305.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00002

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6.

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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7.

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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8.

Concerning experiments to show heat

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. late 1700/early 1701, in English, c. 1,084 words, 1 p.

Source: EL/N1/62, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00333

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9.

Papers relating to the origin of the dispute

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1700-1712, in English with some Latin, c. 13,749 words, 16 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 97r-112v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00353

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10.

Tractatui de Quadratura Curvarum praemittatur haec admonitio

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1704, c. 816 words, 2 ff.

Source: MS Add. 9597/2/18/82, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00285

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11.

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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12.

Mens Scholii praecedentis

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1700-1712, in Latin, c. 7,482 words, 10 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 57r-66v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00351

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13.

Letter to to Henry Oldenburg for Ignatius-Gaston Pardies, dated 10 June 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 10 June 1672, in English, c. 2,212 words, 2 pp.

Source: EL/N1/40, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00312

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14.

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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15.

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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16.

Mr Newtons Letter of April 13. 1672 … being an Answer to the fore-going Letter of P. Pardies

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 13 April 1672 (published 17 June 1672), in Latin, c. 956 words, 3pp.

Source: ‘Mr Newtons Letter of April 13. 1672 … being an Answer to the fore-going Letter of P. Pardies’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 84 (17 June 1672), pp. 4091-4093.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00013

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17.

Copy by Sir Isaac Newton Newton of Leibniz's letter to Pierre Rémond De Monmort

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1716, in English and Latin with a little French, c. 11,693 words, 12 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 445r-456v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00375

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18.

Pierpont Morgan Notebook

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1659-early 1660s, in English, c. 12,039 words, 58ff.

Source: MA 318, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00001

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19.

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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20.

Copy of a letter from John Keill to Hans Sloane

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1715, Latin, c. 3,109 words, 6 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 333r-338r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00366

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21.

Draft of Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to the Editor of Memoirs of Literature

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 17 May 1712, in English with some Latin, c. 1,340 words, 1 f.

Source: MS Add. 3968, f. 257r-257v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00361

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22.

Letter from Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated 13 April 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 13 April 1672, c. 1,165 words.

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 8r-9v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00390

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23.

Letter to Henry Oldenburg, dated 11 June 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 11 June 1672, in English, c. 242 words, 2 pp.

Source: EL/N1/39, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00311

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24.

Draft B of the 'Scholium Generale'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. January 1712/3, in Latin, c. 1,078 words, 3pp.

Source: MS Add. 3965.12, ff. 359-360, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00058

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25.

Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to the Abbe Conti in reply to the Postscript of Leibniz to the same

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1710-1727, in English, Latin and French, c. 15,860 words, 16 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 558r-573v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00382

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