Isaac Newton’s Works

1526.

Further draft of MINT00263 (Mint 19/2/612-13, 614-15)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1701, c. 2,448 words.

Source: MINT 19/2/616-17, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00264

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1527.

Variant draft of MINT00461 (Mint 19/1/378)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1715, c. 723 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/206, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01995

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1528.

Letter from John Haldane to Newton to arrange a meeting between him and a recommended German mining and minerals expert

Author: John Haldane

Metadata: c. April 1716, c. 140 words.

Source: MS Add. 3970, f. 608r, 609v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01739

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1529.

Copy of letter concerning the coining of her Majesty's gold from Portsmouth

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 5 March 1705/6, c. 344 words.

Source: MINT 1/8/57, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01169

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1530.

Protest against preferential treatment for the Edinburgh Mint

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 5 September 1717, c. 236 words.

Source: MINT 19/1/372, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00467

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1531.

Mr. Newton's Letter … containing some more suggestions about his New Telescope

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 26 March 1672 (published 22 April 1672), c. 858 words, 3pp.

Source: ‘Mr. Newton's Letter … containing some more suggestions about his New Telescope, and a Table of Apertures and Charges for the several Lengths of that Instrument’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 82 (22 April 1672), pp. 4032-4034.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00008

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1532.

Joanna Hodges: The Information of Joanna the Wife of Samson Hodges 14 November 1701

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 14 Nov 1701, c. 233 words.

Source: MINT 15/17/417, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01577

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1533.

Covering letter to the Hypothesis, Dec. 7 1675

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 7 December 1675, c. 667 words, 2 pp.

Source: MS Add. 3970.3, f. 459r-v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00120

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1534.

Draft of MINT00305 (Mint 19/2/205)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: June 1711, c. 415 words.

Source: MINT 19/2/191, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00306

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1535.

Draft of MINT00633 (Mint 19/2/356)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: May 1717, c. 484 words.

Source: MINT 19/2/437, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT02043

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1536.

Preliminary enquiries and calculations relating to various foreign currencies and exchange rates

Author: Isaac Newton, Unknown

Metadata: 1700-1701, c. 233 words.

Source: MINT 19/2/15, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00250

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1537.

Correspondence with Thomas Burnet

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 13 January 1681 and later, in English, c. 7,295 words.

Source: Keynes Ms. 106, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00014

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1538.

Holograph list of expense payments made by the Mint to various informants

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: July 1711 or after, c. 591 words.

Source: MINT 19/1/469, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00865

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1539.

Holograph draft memorandum, closely related to MINT00729 (Mint 19/3/542-3) and possibly a variant draft of it: 'Considerations upon the contracting with Cornwall for Tin'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: After 1 August 1714, c. 574 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/524, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00732

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1540.

Holograph draft of MINT00173 (Mint 19/1/109)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: After 21 August 1710, c. 1,366 words.

Source: MINT 19/1/288-9, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01897

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1541.

Holograph copy of accounts submitted by the Navy for 1664-6

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: After 4 April 1696, c. 1,274 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/460-63, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00252

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1542.

Apographum schediasmatis a Newtono olim scripti

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 13 November 1665, in English with some Latin, c. 465 words, 2 pp of 2 fos.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 1r-2v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00345

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1543.

Copy of letter concerning the values of standards

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 25 Apr 1711, c. 452 words.

Source: MINT 1/7/61, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01139

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1544.

'Paradoxical Questions concerning the morals & actions of Athanasius & his followers'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. early 1690s, in English, c. 53,792 words, 83 ff.

Source: **N563M3 P222, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00117

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1545.

Holograph draft of MINT00704 (Mint 19/3/546) reporting on a new design of furnace in Cornwall for melting tin followed by Latin notes on the flow of water from a hole in a cylinder

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. April 1708, c. 942 words.

Source: MINT 19/5/29, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00705

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1546.

Letter concerning the allowances made to the Warden and Master of the Mint, requesting additional funds

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 16 Jun 1696, c. 275 words.

Source: T 1/38.48, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00924

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1547.

Order to Mint to seize all [former engraver] James Roettier's puncheons, dies and presses

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 2 February 1696/7, c. 45 words.

Source: MINT 19/1/150, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00023

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1548.

De natura acidorum

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c 1710, c. 437 words, 1 f.

Source: MS Add. 9597/2/18/81, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00284

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1549.

Letter to Louis d'Aumont, dated 3 June 1714

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 3 June 1714, in English, c. 136 words, 2 pp.

Source: EL/N1/65, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00336

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1550.

Proposals concerning calendar reform

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1699 and later, mainly in English with some Latin, c. 19,277 words, 30 ff. of which 4 blank.

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

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00067

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Three drafts of 'Considerations about rectifying the Iulian Kalendar' and an unrelated alchemical recipe
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'The use of the Kalendar for finding the Lords day & the Moveable Feasts'
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Draft proposals for rectifying the Julian calendar
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Draft proposals for calendar reform
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'Regulæ pro determinatione Paschæ' (draft and fair copy)
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Two drafts of a letter on calendar reform, with extraneous material concerning chronology and the Temple of Zerubbabel
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Draft letter concerning ancient calendars, and notes on Jewish chronology
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