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Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007 contains:
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MS Add.3968	Papers Relating to the dispute Respecting the Invention of Fluxions
MS Add.3969	Astronomy
MS Add.3970	Hydrostatics, Optics, Sound and Heat
MS Add.3971	Miscellaneous Copies of Letters and Papers
MS Add.3972	Papers on Finding the Longtitude at Sea
MS Add.3973	Notes of Experiments, all in Newton's Hand
MS Add.3974	Miscellaneous Notes
MS Add.3975	A Manuscript Note-book
MS Add.3976	Correspondence with Oldenburg
MS Add.3977	Correspondence with Collins and Wallis
MS Add.3978	Letters from Arthur Storer to Dr Babington and to Newton
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Title	Elementary Mathematics
Reference	MS Add.3959
Covering Dates	c 1700

Content and context

Notes and papers regarding algebra and trigonometry.

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.3959 contains:

Add.3959.1: 1-21

Observations on the Algebra of Kinckhuysen. In 1669 Newton was asked by Barrow and Collins to add notes to a translation of Kinckhuysen's Algebra. He agreed on the condition that he would remain anonymous. This is a draft of these notes.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.21 [quarto]; paper.

c 1669

Add.3959.2: 22

The First Ten Propositions of the 2nd book of Euclid, Succinctly Enunciated and Demonstrated.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [folio]; paper.

c 1700

Add.3959.3: 23

Theorem on the Area of a Triangle.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [quarto]; paper.

c 1700

Add.3959.4: 24-32

Trigonometria succincte proposita et nova methodo demonstrata.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.9 [folio]; paper.

c 1700

Add.3959.5: 33-44

A few MS leaves, containing Compendium Trigonometriae.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.14 [mostly folio]; paper.

c 1700

Add.3959.6: 45-49

Table of Sines to Every Half Degree.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.5 [folio]; paper.

c 1700