Catalogue Entry: THEM00279

Draft proposals for rectifying the Julian calendar

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Yahuda Ms. 24c, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

[Normalized Text] [Diplomatic Text]

Sotheby Lot

SL222

[Editorial Note 1] Folio 2 is written upside down and runs backwards from f. 2v to f. 2r.

[Editorial Note 2] A series of very rough draft tables and calculations, occupying f. 3r and part of f. 3v, is here omitted from the transcript.

[Editorial Note 3] Folios 4v and 5r are blank.

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