Janus: The Portsmouth Collection

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007 contains:
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MS Add.3995	Treatise on Algebra and Miscellaneous Unrelated Material
MS Add.3996	Trinity College Notebook
MS Add.3997	Mathematical Treatise
MS Add.3998	Compendium mathematicoalgebraicum ex Oughtredo Wallisio
MS Add.3999	Lettres de M. Leibnitz and M. le Chevalier Newton sur l'invention des Fluxions et du Calcul Differentiel
MS Add.4000	College Notebook
MS Add.4001	Proof sheets of the edition of Newton's Opticks, with a few MS. additions by Newton
MS Add.4002	Lectiones Opticae
MS Add.4003	A book containing the commencement of a work on Hydrostatics, the greater part consisting of a dissertation partly metaphysical, partly theistic, on the constitution of matter, motion, the Cartesian philosophy etc.
MS Add.4004	Newton's Waste Book
MS Add.4005	Miscellaneous Papers
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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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