Isaac Newton’s Works

Draft of MINT00493 (Mint 19/2/214-15)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 4 June 1701, c. 1,240 words.

Source: MINT 19/2/212-13, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00494

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Thomas Carter's Letters to the Warden of the Mint, to Isaac Newton, to Mr Secretary Vernon, and to Isaac Newton

Author: Thomas Trott [Brown, Carter, Williams]

Metadata: c. Feb 1699?, c. 1,052 words.

Source: MINT 15/17/130, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01383

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The warden, comptroller and assay master consider that the royal tin trade should in future be overseen by the Mint Board: Newton refers the decision to the Treasury

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 6 January 1704, c. 440 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/495, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00680

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The Lawes of Motion

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1665 - c. 1672, c. 2,291 words, 6 pp.

Source: MS Add. 3958.5, ff. 81r-83v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00105

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Draft of 'A Theory Concerning Light and Colors'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 6 Feb. 1671/2, in English, c. 5,137 words, 14pp.

Source: MS Add. 3970.3, ff.460-466, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00003

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Holograph queries about standards of trial plates

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: After 21 August 1710, c. 307 words.

Source: MINT 19/1/274, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00175

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Notebook containing little but headings ('De Sale'; 'Solutio'; 'Conjunctio et Liquefactio'; 'Imbibitio & Calcinatio', etc.), with gaps for entries left blank apart from a few perfunctory notes in Latin.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 15 ff.

Source: Ms. Var. 260, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00064

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Notes on the Newton/Cotes correspondence of 1710

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c 1713, c. 1,703 words, 2 ff.

Source: MS Add. 9597/2/18/79-80, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00283

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Contents of Des Maizeaux's'Recueil' and copies of some letters published therein

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1720-1727, in English, Latin, French and Italian, c. 12,708 words, 34 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 505r-538r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00380

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Amy Angell: The Information of Amy the wife of Richard Angell 20 November 1705

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 20 November 1705, c. 243 words.

Source: MINT 15/17/517, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01678

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Summarises the history of the plate-collection and requests a warrant to pay the suppliers at least some of what is owed to them

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Before 30 July 1711, c. 284 words.

Source: MINT 19/2/561, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00561

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Detailed list of grievances against Lord Lucas (Lieutenant of the Tower) and his staff

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Before 27 July 1697, c. 1,749 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/409-10, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00813

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Draft of MINT00287 (Mint 19/2/602-3)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 7 July 1702, c. 189 words.

Source: MINT 19/2/584, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01918

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'On the Quantity of Coyn in the Nation'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1701, c. 1,981 words.

Source: MINT 19/2/618-20, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00265

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Reply to a Treasury enquiry about copper coinage techniques

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 15 November 1714, c. 869 words.

Source: MINT 19/2/363, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00625

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Holograph draft report on the staff and equipment necessary for the Mint to take charge of storing and selling tin on behalf of the Crown

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 30 October 1703, c. 336 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/476, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00677

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Further Notes on the Leibniz Controversy

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c 1713, c. 220 words, 1 f.

Source: MS Add. 9597/2/18/95, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00291

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Treatise on Revelation

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: mid-late 1680s, mainly in English, c. 134,856 words, 250 ff.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 9, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00052

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• Treatise on Revelation (Section 1)
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• Treatise on Revelation (Section 2)
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• Treatise on Revelation (Section 3)
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Margaret Spellman: The Information of Margaret Spellman wife of Nicholas Spellman of Rupert Street parish of St James Westminster yeoman 8 August 1698

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 8 August 1698, c. 378 words.

Source: MINT 15/17/93, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01346

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Personal recommendation of deputy Edinburgh master Patrick Scott

Author: James Ogilvy (Earl of Seafield, Lord Chancellor of Scotland)

Metadata: 2 August 1710, c. 256 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/40, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00450

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Printed proclamation calling in Scottish crowns and 40s., 20s. and 10s. pieces by 10 February 1708 for recoinage

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: [Early] 1708, c. 845 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/172, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00396

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Draft indenture for the Edinburgh Mint, requiring conformity with London practice and allowing apprentices to be sent to London for training

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: After 25 July 1710, c. 8,159 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/82-93, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00442

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Mary Hill/Yarley: The Examination of Mary Hill alias Yarley 10 March 1698/9

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 10 Mar 1698/9, c. 474 words.

Source: MINT 15/17/186, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01437

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Twelve small bundles of alchemical notes and extracts from a very wide range of sources.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. early 1680s, in French, Latin and English, 100 pp. enclosed in a wrapper bearing a list of contents.

Source: Ms. Var. 259, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: ALCH00063

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Report on a proposal by Charles Tunnah and William Dale to coin 1,000 tons of halfpence and farthings from an artificial metal similar to gold

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 23 January 1713/14, c. 395 words.

Source: MINT 19/2/435, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00609

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