Janus: The Portsmouth Collection

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007 contains:
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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
MS Add.3979	Correspondence with Flamsteed
MS Add.3980	Gregory to Newton
MS Add.3981	Letters from Halley to Newton Relating to the Publication fo the First Edition of the 'Principia'
MS Add.3982	Halley to Newton About Comets' Orbits
MS Add.3983	Cotes's Letters to Newton, mostly published in Edleston's Correspondence of Newton and Cotes
MS Add.3984	Rough Drafts of Some of Newton's Letters to Cotes
MS Add.3985	Keill to Newton
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Title	Hydrostatics, Optics, Sound and Heat
Reference	MS Add.3970
Covering Dates	c 1672-c 1706

Content and context

Drafts of 'Optics' and other miscellaneous material.

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Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.3970 contains:

Add.3970.1: 1-15

On the Division of a Monochord. Plus an extract "out of Mr Sympson's Division Violist".
ff.15 [quarto]; paper.

c 1670-c 1680

Add.3970.2: 16

Notes on the Velocity of Sound. On the back there's a note on the proportionality of mass to weight.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [quarto]; paper.

c 1670-c 1710

Add.3970.3: 17-78,91-233

Printer's Copy of Newton's Opticks. Contains emendation in Newton's hand, and printer's marks. Last folio (p.137 in printed text) is missing.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.205 [folio]; paper.

1704

Add.3970.3: 79-90

Draft of the Opening of Newton's Opticks, Book Three. The margin is as in the printer's copy, but contains no printer's marks.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.12 [folio]; paper.

c 1704

Add.3970.3: 234-359

Miscellaneous Drafts of Newton's Optics.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.126 [folio]; paper.

c 1700-c 1704

Add.3970.3: 360-582

Miscellaneous Optical Writings. Includes copies of letters, drafts of Opticks and other writings.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.223 [folio]; paper.

c 1670-c 1706

Add.3970.4: 583-584

Draft Latin Translation of Opticks, Book I, Part I, Experiments 8-10.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1700-c 1704

Add.3970.5: 585-592

Answer to Objections made to Newton's Optical Theories. ff.91-92 MISSING. Also a scrap with memoranda aobut the Newtonian telescope.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.8 [quarto]; paper.

c 1704-c 1710

Add.3970.6: 593

Memorandum of Observations on the Colours of Thick Plates.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [quarto]; paper.

c 1670-c 1710

Add.3970.7: 594-599

Fragments on Light and Heat.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.6 [mixed]; paper.

c 1670-c 1710

Add.3970.8: 600-611

On the Refraction Observed in Iceland Spar. Plus a note to the reader relating to it. Proposed addition to Newton's Opticks.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.12 [mixed]; paper.

c 1704-c 1710

Add.3970.9: 612-639

Fragments on Optics.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.28 [folio]; paper.

c 1670-c 1710

Add.3970.10: 640-648

Optical Experiments.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.9 [mixed]; paper.

c 1670-c 1710

Add.3970.11: 649-651

Figure and Description of a Sheep's Eye.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.3 [quarto]; paper.

c 1670-c 1700

Add.3970.12: 652-653

Speculations as to the Constitution of Matter and the Nature of the Action of Heat.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1670-c 1710