Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.3970 contains:
Add.3970.1: 1-15	On the Division of a Monochord
Add.3970.2: 16	Notes on the Velocity of Sound
Add.3970.3: 17-78,91-233	Printer's Copy of Newton's Opticks
Add.3970.3: 79-90	Draft of the Opening of Newton's Opticks, Book Three
Add.3970.3: 234-359	Miscellaneous Drafts of Newton's Optics
Add.3970.3: 360-582	Miscellaneous Optical Writings
Add.3970.4: 583-584	Draft Latin Translation of Opticks, Book I, Part I, Experiments 8-10
Add.3970.5: 585-592	Answer to Objections made to Newton's Optical Theories
Add.3970.6: 593	Memorandum of Observations on the Colours of Thick Plates
Add.3970.7: 594-599	Fragments on Light and Heat
Add.3970.8: 600-611	On the Refraction Observed in Iceland Spar
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Title	Notes on the Velocity of Sound
Reference	MS Add.3970.2: 16
Creator	Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician
Covering Dates	c 1670-c 1710
Extent and Medium	f.1 [quarto]; paper

Content and context

On the back there's a note on the proportionality of mass to weight.

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

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