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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The Portsmouth Collection

Title	College Notebook
Reference	MS Add.4000
Creator	Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician
Covering Dates	1664–1665
Extent and Medium	ff.163 [octavo]; paper

Content and context

A small note-book, written from both ends, containing early exercises - extraction of the square and cube root, elementary Geometry, etc. - followed by annotations of Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum. This is preceded by a note of Newton's fixing by an entry in his account-book the date of the annotations as being in the winter 1664-1665, at which time he says he found the method of infinite series. Also notes on music, chances etc.

Index Terms

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

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