Newton’s Religious Writings

Notes on prophecies

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: post-1700, mainly in English, c. 15,630 words, 33 pp.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 8, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00051

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• Notes on prophecies (Section 1)
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• Notes on prophecies (Section 2)
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• Notes on prophecies (Section 3)
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• Notes on prophecies (Section 4)
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Fair copies of the 'Short Chronicle' and 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 86,051 words, 120 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3988, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00090

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'Ex Marci Maximi Cæsaraugustani in Hispanijs Episcopi Chronico'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin, c. 500 words, 2 pp.

Source: R.16.38. 438A, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00102

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Theological Notebook

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1684-90, in English and Latin with some quotations from Greek, c. 67,314 words, 132 pp.

Source: Keynes Ms. 2, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00002

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• Theological Notebook (Part 1)
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• Theological Notebook (Part 2)
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Memorandum on the French-English exchange rate alongside notes on Biblical chronology

Author: Isaac Newton, Unknown

Metadata: 1701-1777, c. 1,282 words.

Source: MINT 19/5/46-7, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00207

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Draft passages on chronology and biblical history

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: after 1710, in English with quotations in Greek, Latin and Hebrew, c. 150,000 words, c. 450 pp. on 409 ff.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 25, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00068

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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section a(1)
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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section a(2)
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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section a(3)
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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section a(4)
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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section a(5)
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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section a(6)
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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section a(7)
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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section a(8)
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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section a(9)
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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section a(10)
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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section b
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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section c
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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section d
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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section e
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• Draft sections of the 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' and of a treatise on Daniel: section f
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• Drafts on chronology: section 2a
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• Drafts on chronology: section 2b
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• Drafts on chronology: section 2c
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• Drafts on chronology: section 2d
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• Drafts on chronology: section 2e
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• Drafts on chronology: section 2f
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Draft chapters of a treatise on the origin of religion and its corruption

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. early 1690s, mainly in English, c. 28,550 words, 47 pp. on 29 ff.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 41, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00077

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Copy letter from Isaac Newton to Thomas Burnet

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: After 13 January 1680/1, in English, c. 3,421 words.

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

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00253

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Original letter from Isaac Newton to Richard Bentley, dated 11 February 1692/3

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 11 February 1692/3, in English, c. 367 words.

Source: 189.R.4.47, f. 6, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00256

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Seven drafts of Newton's defence of the Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: after 11 November 1725, in English with some French, c. 15,241 words, 23 pp., with related notes, 7 pp. (20 ff. in all).

Source: Yahuda Ms. 27, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00070

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Fragment on Church history, mainly concerning Athanasius

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1675-1685, in Latin, c. 2,502 words, 7 pp. on 4 ff.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 29, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00072

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'The Original of Monarchies'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1701-2, in English, c. 13,099 words, 30 pp.

Source: Keynes Ms. 146, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00040

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Original letter from Isaac Newton to Richard Bentley, dated 10 December 1692

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 10 December 1692, in English, c. 1,626 words.

Source: 189.R.4.47, ff. 4A-5, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00254

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Miscellaneous drafts and fragments on prophecy

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: after 1700, in English with some Latin, Greek and Hebrew, c. 300,000 words, c. 900 pp.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 7, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00050

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• Four draft chapters on prophecy (section 7.1a)
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• 'An Interpretation of Daniel's Beasts' (section 7.1b)
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• 'An Interpretation of the Prophesy of Daniel's weeks by Iewish years' (section 7.1c)
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• Four draft chapters on prophecy (section 7.1d)
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• Three draft chapters on prophecy (section 7.1e)
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• Three Drafts of 'Chap. 4 Of the Prophesy of the seventy weeks' (section 7.1f)
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• 'Chap. 5 Of the Empire of the Greeks' (section 7.1g)
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• Four Fragmentary Drafts of 'Chap. VI Of the Empire of the Latins' (section 7.1h)
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• Seven Drafts of 'Sect V Of the kingdoms represented in Daniel by the Ram & He-Goat & of the last horn of the Goat' (section 7.1i)
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• Five Drafts of 'Chap. VIII A further explication of the four Empires' (section 7.1j)
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• Five Drafts of 'Of the Prophesy of the Scripture of truth' (section 7.1k)
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• Three Drafts of 'Chap. VIII Of the four great Empires, & the temporal Dominion represented by the last horn of the fourth Beast' (section 7.1l)
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• 'Sect. IV. Of the ten Horns of the fourth Beast.' (section 7.1m)
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• Thirteen Drafts of 'Of the King who doth according to his will, & honours Mahuzzim, & regardeth not the God of his fathers nor the desire of weomen' (section 7.1n)
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• Draft table of contents and miscellaneous fragments of text (section 7.1o)
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• Untitled Drafts on Prophecy (section 7.2a)
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• Notes on the editing of the rest of the manuscript (section 7.2b)
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• 'Sect II: The second Temple with its Candlesticks representing the two Witnesses' (section 7.2c)
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• 'Sect. III: Of the first & second Temples and their Candlesticks.' (section 7.2d)
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• 'Sect. II. Of the Woman & two-horned Beast' (section 7.2e)
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• Editorial notes in various hands
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• 'Considerations on The Prophesy of Daniel concerning the Messiah' (section 7.2g)
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• Rough drafts of some of the chapters of the work on the Prophecies (section 7.2h)
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• 'The Conclusion' (section 7.2i)
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• Assorted materials concerning the prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John along with calculations relating to the Mint (section 7.2i)
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• Sect II: The two Witnesses (section 7.3a)
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• Sect IV: Of the power of the eleventh horn of Daniels fourth Beast to change times & laws (section 7.3b)
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• Sect. IV: A further account of the division of the Roman Empire into two Empires with their Churches false & true (section 7.3c)
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• Sect. IV: A further account of the division of the Roman Empire (section 7.3d)
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• Fragments on superstition and monasticism (section 7.3e)
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• Fragment on Church history (section 7.3f)
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• Fragments on the rise of the papacy and Revelation
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• Fragment on the Epistles to the Seven Churches (section 7.3h)
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• Fragments on history and prophecy.
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• Fragment on the Revelation of Daniel (section 7.3j)
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• 'Sect. VI. Of the last horn of the He-Goat' (section 7.3k)
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• Fragment on Daniel and Revelation (section 7.3l)
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• Fragment on Athanasius and the corruption of the true Church (section 7.3m)
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• Fragment on Daniel on the back of a draft account of Pyx Trial procedure (section 7.3n)
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• Miscellaneous historical and apocalyptic jottings on various scraps of paper (section 7.3o)
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• Various miscellaneous apocalyptic, historical and mint-related jottings on largely unpaginated scraps of paper or draft/re-used letters (section 7.3p)
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Notes on Biblical chronology

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin, c. 500 words, 2 pp. on 1 f.

Source: Ms. 1029, The Babson College Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00087

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Untitled treatise on Revelation

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1670s-1680s, mainly in English but with many passages in Latin and citations in Greek, c. 327,362 words, c. 650 ff.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 1, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00044

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• Untitled Treatise on Revelation (section 1.1)
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• Untitled Treatise on Revelation (section 1.1a)
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• Untitled Treatise on Revelation (section 1.2)
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• Untitled Treatise on Revelation (section 1.3)
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• Untitled Treatise on Revelation (section 1.4)
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• Untitled treatise on Revelation (Section 1.5)
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• Untitled treatise on Revelation (Section 1.6)
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• Untitled treatise on Revelation (Section 1.7)
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• Untitled treatise on Revelation (Section 1.8)
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Fragments on the kingdoms of the European tribes, the Temple and the history of Jewish and Christian Churches

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1675-85, mainly in Latin, with some English, Greek and Hebrew, c. 25,125 words, 43 ff.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 28, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00071

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• Jottings on chronology
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• Notes on Roman and Church history
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• Notes on Villalpando
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• Notes from Buxtorf
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Fragments on miscellaneous theological subjects

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: probably 1710s or 1720s, in English and Latin, c. 9,839 words, 20 pp. on 15 ff. + wrapper.

Source: SL255, Location Unknown

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00127

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• 'Of the Religion of the Iews & Christians'
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• Part 1 of a passage on Church history
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• Part 2 of a passage on Church history
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• Fragment on the Nazarenes
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• Fragment on Revelation
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• A fragment on the worship due to God from man
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• Part of a study of Revelation
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• Passage on the faith Christ taught the disciples
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• Passage on early Christian sects
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• Fragment on early Church government
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Fragment on Church history, drawn mainly from the Annales of Baronius

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in Latin, c. 300 words, 1 p.

Source: Ms. 704, The Babson College Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00084

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Notes on the Temple of Solomon and a tabular comparison of measurement systems

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: probably after 1690, in Latin with a few words in Hebrew, c. 1,237 words, 2 pp. on 1 f.

Source: Ms. 132, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00111

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De Gravitatione et æquipondio fluidorum

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. mid-1680s, in Latin, c. 9,428 words, 40 pp.

Source: MS Add. 4003, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00093

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Drafts of the 'Short Chronicle' and 'Original of Monarchies'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1701-2 and later, in English with some Latin, Greek and Hebrew, c. 48,810 words, 159 ff.

Source: Ms. 361(1), New College Library, Oxford, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00096

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• Drafts of the 'Short Chronicle'
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• Cataloguer's Notes for New College Oxford Ms. 361(1)B
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• John Conduitt's description of Newton's draft of 'The Original of Monarchies'
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• Scheme of the contents of 'The Original of Monarchies'
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• Drafts of various parts of 'The Original of Monarchies'
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'Tuba Quarta' ('The Fourth Trumpet')

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1675-80, in Latin, c. 4,474 words, 21 pp.

Source: Keynes Ms. 1, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00001

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Fragmentary notes on Church history

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: in English, c. 817 words, 2 pp.

Source: M132/2/10, Stanford University Library, Stanford, California, USA

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00108

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Notes on Greek, Roman and Egyptian deities

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1680s, in Latin, c. 992 words, 2 pp. on 1 f.

Source: Yahuda Ms. 33, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00075

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