Janus: The Portsmouth Collection

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007 contains:
<-- See earlier
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
MS Add.4006	Correspondence, Articles of Agreement etc. about the Publication of Flamsteed's Observations
MS Add.4007	Copies of Newton-related letters and memoranda

The Portsmouth Collection

Title	Miscellaneous Papers
Reference	MS Add.4005
Creator	Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician
Covering Dates	1685–1833

Content and context

Papers either in Newton's hand or concerning his life and work. Subjects covered include the Royal Society, education, cosmography, mechanics, mathematics, astronomy and shipbuilding.

Index Terms

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

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005 contains:

unnumbered

Miscellaneous Notes Concerning Newton's Papers.
ff.5 [mixed]; paper.

c 1727-c 1900

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.1: 1-103

Copy of the Agreement Relating to Newton's MSS; Copy of Bond given by Conduitt in Relation to Newton's Papers; Account of John Conduitt's Right to the MSS of Newton. NO LONGER IN COLLECTION - not returned to Lord Portsmouth.

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.2: 1-8

A Scheme for Establishing the Royal Society. Seven drafts.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.8 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.3: 1-16

Two printed copies of Newton's letter to the Abbe Conti, with remarks of Newton on the letter of Leibnitz to the Abbe Conti. These were shorts printed by Newton in London in Augut 1717 to be added to Raphson's "History of Fluxions" (after Leibniz's death). They were seen by Des Maizeaux, who then persuaded more letters out of Conti (early 1718). Bth were printed together in Tome 2 of "Recueil de diverses piéces par Mrs. Leibniz, Clarke, Newton, & autre autheurs celébres" (Amsterdam, 1720), pp.20., 82 & 107.
ff.16 [quarto]; paper.

August 1717

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.4: 9

Advertisement of the Book "De Systemate Mundi".
Creator: Conduitt, John, 1688-1737, politician.
f.1 [folio]; paper.

1727

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.4: 10-11

Suggested Corrections to Conduitt's Account of Newton's Life.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

c 1727-c 1737

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.4: 12-13

Letter from John Lee to James Hudson. Concerning a proposed Life of Newton.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

9 August 1833

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.5: 14-15

On Educating Youth in the Universities.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1690

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.5: 16

Testamonial to David Gregory for the position of Astronomy Professor at Oxford.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [folio]; paper.

27 July 1691

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.5: 17-20

The Method of Teaching in the Colleges in Scotland.
Creator: Gregory, David, 1659-1708, mathematician and astronomer.
ff.4 [folio]; paper.

8 August 1691

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.5: 21-22

Two Chapters on Cosmography.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.5: 23-24

The Elements of Mechanicks.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.6: 25-37

Systema Mundi. Draft of Principia Book III.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.13 [folio]; paper.

c 1675-c 1687

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.7: 38-42

An Account of the System of the World described in Mr Newton's Principles of Philosophy. English version of Principia Book III.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.4 [mixed]; paper.

c 1687-c 1700

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.8: 43-44

Astronomiae. MS copy of an astronomical treatise, containing a drawing and description of a quadrant or sextant for measuring angles by reflexion.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.9: 45-50

Phaenomena. Descriptions of 15 astronomical phenomena.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.6 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.10: 51-52

Scheme of Observations Recommended to a Traveller. Under the subject headings: astronomy, geography, navigation, mechanics and minerology.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.11

Papers Relating to Legal Matters. NO LONGER IN COLLECTION - not returned to Lord Portsmouth.

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.12: 53-63

General Proportions for the Parts of a Ship.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.11 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.13

Estimates of the Expenses of Government in 1668 and 1675, and a Chronological Tree of the Royal Family in 1689. NO LONGER IN COLLECTION - not returned to Lord Portsmouth.

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.14

John Conrad de Hatzfeld on a Scheme for Perpetual Motion. NO LONGER IN COLLECTION - not returned to Lord Portsmouth.

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.15: 64-84

Notes from Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 16, No. 181 (1686-1687), pp. 78-123. And other fragmentary notes.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.21 [mixed]; paper.

c 1687

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.16

Fragments of the Historia Caelestis. NO LONGER IN COLLECTION - not returned to Lord Portsmouth.

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.17

"Barometri altitudines per totum itineris mei Alpini decursum". NO LONGER IN COLLECTION - not returned to Lord Portsmouth.

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.18

Testimonial for E. Paget, M.A., Trin., as a Person Fit to Teach Navigation to the King's Satisfaction. NO LONGER IN COLLECTION - not returned to Lord Portsmouth.

3 April 2682

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.19: 85-90

A Scheme of Mathematical Learning Proposed for Mr Stone's Foundation at Christ's Hospital. Several drafts.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.6 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.20: 91-92

Newton's Remarks on 'A Scheme of Mathematical Learning Proposed for Mr Stone's Foundation at Christ's Hospital'.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.21: 93

Draft of Newton's Letter concerning 'A Scheme of Mathematical Learning Proposed for Mr Stone's Foundation at Christ's Hospital'.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.22: 94-101

c 1665-c 1727

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.23

Two Drafts of a Paper Headed: "The Case of Trinity College," on the Fellowship Dividends. NO LONGER IN COLLECTION - not returned to Lord Portsmouth.

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.24

"Henricus Sextus", apparently a College or University Declamation. NO LONGER IN COLLECTION - not returned to Lord Portsmouth.

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.25

A Latin Phrase-book, under the Heads of English Words in Alphabetical Order, the First Word 'abate' , the Last 'conduct'. At the other end are extracts from Epiphanius, St Augustine etc. NO LONGER IN COLLECTION - not returned to Lord Portsmouth.

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.26

Phrases from Terence's "Andria", with Occasional Translation. NO LONGER IN COLLECTION - not returned to Lord Portsmouth.

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.27

Miscellaneous fragments relating to personal matters. The packet contains a torn scrap of a letter from Newton's mother to him, 6 May 1665, and one from Catharine Conduitt to Newton. NO LONGER IN COLLECTION - not returned to Lord Portsmouth.

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.28: 102-103

A Problem in Chances. Not in Newton's hand; apparently a Latin variation of results by John Arbuthnot in "Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London", 1710.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1665-c 1727

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.29

A Demonstration in French on the Quadrature of the Circle, by Dan Waeijwel of Amsterdam. NO LONGER IN COLLECTION - not returned to Lord Portsmouth.

EAD/GBR/0012/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005.30

Scraps. NO LONGER IN COLLECTION - not returned to Lord Portsmouth.