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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	Papers Relating to Geometry
Reference	MS Add.3963
Covering Dates	c 1665-c 1727

Index Terms

Geometry

Mathematics

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.3963 contains:

Add.3963.1: 1-2

De problematum resolutione synthetica.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

Add.3963.2: 3-12

Geometriae, Liber I: a fragment. Plus note: "This is imperfect and contains nothing but what is very commonly known. Not to be published.".
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.11 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

Add.3963.3: 13-26, 29-39

A Fragment on Porisms.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.26 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

Add.3963.4: 27-28

Analysis Geometrica.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

Add.3963.5: 40-41

Regula fratrum.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

Add.3963.6: 42-45

Fragment Relating to Curves.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.4 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

Add.3963.7: 46-61

Geometria curvilinea and Fluxions.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.12 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

Add.3963.8: 62-68

Scraps containing Propositions in Geometry. a) To describe a Conic Section through five given points;. b) To describe a Conic Section passing through two points and touching three given straight lines. See also Add. 3963.12: 127-152.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.7 [quarto]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

Add.3963.9: 69-106

Tract on the Construction of Equations. Unfinished.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.37 [quarto]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

Add.3963.10: 107-108

On the Properties of Curves.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

Add.3963.11: 109-126

Geometriae.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.18 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

Add.3963.12: 127-152

De compositione locorum solidorum.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.26 [quarto]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

Add.3963.13: 152-153

Solution problematis veterum de loco solido.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

Add.3963.14: 154-170

Fragments relating to the 'Porisms' of Euclid, the 'Loci' of Apollonius and other ancient subjects.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.19 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

Add.3963.15: 171-183

Remarks on the nature and objects of Arithmetic, Geometry and Mechanics. Plus some notes on theology. f.182 is part of the preface of Principia.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.13 [folio]; paper.

26 September 1706

Add.3963.16: 184-185

A fragment relating to the Comarison of Curved Superficies.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727