Newton’s Scientific Papers

Copy of a French translation of a letter from John Keill to John Bernouilli

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1710-1720, in French with a little English and Latin, c. 11,725 words, 19 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 339r-367v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00367

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A particular Answer of Mr. Isaak Newton to Mr. Linus his Letter

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 29 Feb. 1675/6 (published 25 March 1676), in English, c. 2,362 words, 6pp.

Source: ‘A particular Answer of Mr. Isaak Newton to Mr. Linus his Letter, printed in Numb. 121. p. 499’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 123 (25 March 1676), pp. 556-561.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00024

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'Quæstiones quædam Philosophiæ' ('Certain Philosophical Questions')

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: early-mid 1660s, in Greek, Latin and English, c. 20,148 words, 140 ff. of which 13 blank.

Source: MS Add. 3996, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00092

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Unpublished Appendix to 'methodus': Problem IX

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1671, in Latin, c. 2,908 words, 12 pp.

Source: MS Add. 3960.4, pp. 33-48, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00295

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Remarks on Leibniz's first letter to the Abbe Conti

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1710-1720, in English and Latin with a little French, c. 5,448 words, 8 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 412r-419r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00372

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Mr. Newtons Answer to the foregoing Letter [of Christiaan Huygens]

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 21 July 1673, in English, c. 1,738 words, 6pp.

Source: ‘Mr. Newtons Answer to the foregoing Letter [of Christiaan Huygens]’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 96 (21 July 1673), pp. 6087-6092.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00017

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Lectiones Opticae

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. January 1669, in Latin with some English and Greek, c. 39,224 words, 129 ff.

Source: MS Add. 4002, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00306

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Copy of an extract from Newton to John Collins, dated 10 December 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 10 December 1672, in English with a little Latin, c. 2,616 words, 5 pp. on 3 ff.

Source: EL/N1/42-44, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00314

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Optice: Sive De Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus & Coloribus Lucis. Libri Tres (London: 1706)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1706, in Latin, c. 81,688 words.

Source: Optice: Sive De Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus & Coloribus Lucis. Libri Tres. (London: 1706).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00062

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• Front Matter to the Optice (1706)
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• Liber Primus, Pars. I (1706)
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• Liber Primus, Pars. II (1706)
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• Liber Secundus, Pars. I (1706)
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• Liber Secundus, Pars. II (1706)
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• Liber Secundus, Pars. III (1706)
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• Liber Secundus, Pars. IV (1706)
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• Liber Tertius (1706)
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Extract from Bernoulli's letter of 7 June 1713, with Newton's Observations on it

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1713-1720, in French, Latin and English, c. 19,367 words, 13 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 487r-504v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00379

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Unarranged fragments, mostly relating to the dispute with Leibniz

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1665-1727, in French, English and Latin, c. 113,053 words, 16 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 594r-619v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00385

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Letter to to Henry Oldenburg, dated 30 July 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 30 July 1672, in English, c. 187 words, 2 pp.

Source: EL/N1/41, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00313

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Animadversions on Pierre Rémond de Monmort's letter to Nicholas Bernouilli (20 August 1713)

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1713, in English and Latin, c. 3,817 words, 8 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 465r-472v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00377

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Collations for the History of the Infinitesimal Analysis

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1700-1712, in Latin with a little English, c. 19,741 words, 58 pp on 30 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 113r-144v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00354

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Method of Curves and Infinite Series, and application to the Geometry of Curves

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1665-70, in Latin with a few words of Greek, c. 31,913 words, 53 pp.

Source: MS Add. 3960.14, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00299

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• Method of Curves and Infinite Series, and application to the Geometry of Curves (Part 1)
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• Method of Curves and Infinite Series, and application to the Geometry of Curves (Part 2)
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• Method of Curves and Infinite Series, and application to the Geometry of Curves (Part 3)
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Newton's Demonstration that planets move in ellipses

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: August 1684, in English, c. 2,574 words, 5 pp.

Source: MS Add. 3965.1, ff. 1r-3v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00092

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Draft A of the 'Scholium Generale'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. January 1712/3, mainly in Latin, with some English, c. 1,310 words, 4pp.

Source: MS Add. 3965.12, ff. 357-358, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00057

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Appendix Containing Newton's Proofs of his Priority

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1710-1720, in English, with some Latin, c. 848 words, 1 f.

Source: MS Add. 3968, f. 253r-253v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00359

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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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De Analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 31 July 1669, in Latin, c. 4,985 words, 15 pp. on 9 ff.

Source: MS/81/4, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00204

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Newton's figure of his reflecting telescope with explanations

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1672, in English, c. 326 words, 2 pp.

Source: EL/N1/37, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00309

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Copy of a letter to John Collins, dated 9 April 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 9 April 1672, in English, c. 1,365 words, 4 pp.

Source: EL/N1/46, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00316

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De Solutione Problematum per Motum

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: October 1666, c. 4,561 words, 29 pp.

Source: MS Add. 3958.3, ff. 68r-76v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00101

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'Ad Lectorem' prefixed to the second edition of the Commercium epistolicum

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1710-1720, Latin with some English and French, c. 11,061 words, 20 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 312r-331v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00365

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Several drafts of letters of Newton to Des Maizeaux after the death of Leibniz

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. 1716-1720, in English and Latin with a little French, c. 24,628 words, 29 ff.

Source: MS Add. 3968, ff. 383r-411v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00371

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