Janus: The Portsmouth Collection

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4005 contains:
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Add.4005.2: 1-8	A Scheme for Establishing the Royal Society
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
Add.4005.4: 9	Advertisement of the Book "De Systemate Mundi"
Add.4005.4: 10-11	Suggested Corrections to Conduitt's Account of Newton's Life
Add.4005.4: 12-13	Letter from John Lee to James Hudson
Add.4005.5: 14-15	On Educating Youth in the Universities
Add.4005.5: 16	Testamonial to David Gregory for the position of Astronomy Professor at Oxford
Add.4005.5: 17-20	The Method of Teaching in the Colleges in Scotland
Add.4005.5: 21-22	Two Chapters on Cosmography
Add.4005.5: 23-24	The Elements of Mechanicks
Add.4005.6: 25-37	Systema Mundi
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The Portsmouth Collection

Title	On Educating Youth in the Universities
Reference	MS Add.4005.5: 14-15
Creator	Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician
Covering Dates	c 1690
Extent and Medium	ff.2 [folio]; paper

Further information

Published in A Rupert Hall; Marie Boas Hall, "Unpublished scientific papers of Isaac Newton; a selection from the Portsmouth collection in the University Library, Cambridge" (Cambridge, 1962), pp.369-373.

Index Terms

Education

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

Gregory, David (1659-1708) astronomer

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