Letter to Henry Oldenburg, dated 11 June 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

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

Published online: June 2014

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June 11^th 1672.

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Read June 12: 72.

Ent^d LB. 5. 252.

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S^r

I have sent you my Answers to M^r Hook & P. Pardies, w^ch I hope will bring with y^m y^t satisfaction w^ch I promised. And as there is nothing in Mr Hooks Considerations w^th w^ch I am not well contented, so I presume there is as little in mine w^ch he can excep against, since you will easily see that I have industriously avoyded y^e intermixing of oblique & glancing expressions i{illeg}|n| my discourse. So y^t I hope it will be needlesse to trouble the Heads of y^e R. Society to adjust matters. However if there should be any possibly be any thing esteemed of y^t kind, I desire it may be interpreted candidly & with respect to M|th|e contents of M^r Hooks Considerations, & I shall readily give way to y^e mitigation of whatsoever y^e Heads of y^e R. Society shall esteem personall. And concerning my former Answer to P. Pardies, I resigne to you y^e same liberty w^ch he hath done for his Objections, of mollifying any expressions that may have a shew of harshnesse.

Yo^r Servant

I. Newton.

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A Letter to M^r Oldenburg
concerning M^r Newtons Answers
to \y^e annotations of/ M^r Hook and P. Pardies upon
his Theory of Light.

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These

To henry Oldenburg Es
at his house about y^e middle
of y^e old Pall-maile in
Westminter {sic}

London