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Items pertaining to the collection itself |
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Papers of Sir Isaac Newton |
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The Macclesfield Collection
| Title |
Papers of Sir Isaac Newton |
| Reference |
MS Add.9597/2 |
| Covering Dates |
1667–1724 |
| Extent and Medium |
paper |
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| Content and context |
Primarily Newton autographs and letters to Newton. |
| Further information |
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'Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century: Including Letters of Barrow, Flamstead, Wallis, and Newton, Printed from the Originals in the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield', S.P. Rigaud, 2 vols (Oxford, 1841.) At lower levels this is abbreviated to 'Rigaud';
'The Correspondence of Isaac Newton', ed. H.W. Turnbull, 7 vols (Cambridge, 1959-1977.) At lower levels this is abbreviated to 'Corr';
'The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton', ed. D. Whiteside, 8 vols (Cambridge, 1967-1981.) At lower levels this is abbreviated to 'MP'.
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| Index Terms |
| Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician |
| Manuscripts/MS Add.9597/2 contains: |
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The First Extended Account of the Construction.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper. |
c 1668 |
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2
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The Problems of Curves.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper. |
c 1667 |
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3
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The Description of Conics and Cubics With a Double Point.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.6; paper. |
c 1668 |
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4
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Researches into the General Properties of Curves.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.4 [quarto]; paper. |
c 1667 |
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De solutione planorum Problematum per regulam trium. 'The Solution of Plane Problems by the Rule of Three.'.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper. |
c 1678 |
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6
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Matheseos Universalis Specimina. A preliminary draft of the introduction to and first chapter of 'Specimens of a Universal System of Mathematics.' Drafts of subsequent chapters are to be found in the Portsmouth Collection at Add.3964.3: 7r-20v. The item was probably split up c.1709-1710 when William Jones was contemplating an edition of Newton's mathematical papers.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper. |
c July 1684 |
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7
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De computo serierum. This is a revised version of the Specimina (Add.9597/2/6 and Add.3964.3: 7r-20v) from which (for reasons unknown) all references to Gregory and Leibniz are expunged. This is the first chapter: the two following ones are in the Portsmouth Collection at Add. 3964.3: 13r-14r (preliminary drafts and calculations are at Add. 3964.3: 11r-12v.). The item was probably split up c.1709-1710 when William Jones was contemplating an edition of Newton's mathematical papers.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.6 [folio]; paper. |
c 1684 |
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8
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Preliminary draft of 'De quadratura curvarum'. This belongs with a number of papers in the Portsmouth collection written at around the same time on the same subject. These are at Add.3960.7-10 and 3962.2-3. D.T. Whiteside has put them together to make a coherent 'unfinished preliminary text'. See 'publications'.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.8 [folio]; paper. |
November 1691 |
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A revised version 'De quadratura curvarum'.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper. |
c April 1712 |
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10
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Headings from 'De quadratura curvarum'.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [quarto]; paper. |
c 1680-c 1690 |
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Analysis and Synthesis: Newton's declaration of the manner of their application in the 'Principia'. Draft for a new preface to Principia in light of the argument over priority of invention of calculus.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.3 [folio]; paper. |
c 1716-c 1718 |
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12
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Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins. Not published.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper. |
2 October 1672 |
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13
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Letter from Isaac Newton to Michael Dary. Not autograph.
f.1 [quarto]; paper. |
6 October 1674 |
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14
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'Avertissement au Lecteur' and other short notes. The 'Avertissement au Lecteur' was Newton's response to Des Maiseaux's publication of the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.4 [mixed]; paper. |
c 1717 |
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15
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Miscellaneous Newton papers, including some relating to the Leibnitz controversy.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.6 [folio]; paper. |
c 1700-c 1727 |
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'To solve numerall equations by divisors of one dimension'. f.87 of Newton's 'waste book', which is now in the Portsmouth Collection: MS Add. 4004.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [folio]; paper. |
c 1670-c 1680 |
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17
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Newton's observations of the comet of 1682.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [quarto]; paper. |
1682 |
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18
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The Letters and Papers of Newton.
paper. |
1669–1724 |
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