Janus: Sir Isaac Newton: Notes on 'Principia', and related papers

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.2768.1	Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire: copy of protest made by James Cooper, master of the schooner 'The Exertion', Thomas Sands, mate, and by Henry Ombler, mariner, before Henry Francis Skeet, notary public,
MS Add.2768.10	Waterford, Ireland: copy of depositions in appeal by Daniel Rea and John Mason v. John Collins and another unidentified party
MS Add.2768.11	Results of the examination of three Babylonian tablets, and of the deposit found on them
MS Add.2768.12	Frederick Rolfe: Statement concerning Chronicles of the House of Borgia (London, 1901)
MS Add.2768.13	Georg Göschen: Correspondence with J. J. Griesbach and F. A. Wolf
MS Add.2768.14	Sir Isaac Newton: Notes on 'Principia', and related papers
MS Add.2768.15	Sir Edmund Gosse: Tristram Jones
MS Add.2768.16	Cypriot charge sheet
MS Add.2768.17	Charge of the warden of the collegiate establishment
MS Add.2768.18	Joseph Joachim: 'Als Vorlaüfer für ein Heft Lieder. Zür nachsichtigen und freündlichen Erinnerung'
MS Add.2768.19	Catalogue of Barakzai coins
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Sir Isaac Newton: Notes on 'Principia', and related papers

Title	Sir Isaac Newton: Notes on 'Principia', and related papers
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.2768.14
Creator	Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727
Covering Dates	1713 (Circa)
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

In Latin. fo. 1: tables on the motions of two comets, 1682-3. For the first, see Edmond Halley, Astronomical Tables, London, 1752. The printed table differs in some particulars from this copy. fo. 5: Newton: notes on the periods and distances of the satellites of Saturn, and of the planets. fo. 9: Newton: notes on Principia, p. 370, l. 28.

Found between pp. 362 and 363, and between pp. 370 and 371, of CUL Adv.b.39.2, a second edition of the Principia (Cambridge, 1713).

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Sir Isaac Newton: Notes on 'Principia', and related papers, MS Add.2768.14

Index Terms

Astronomy

Meteorites

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician

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