Letter to Henry Oldenburg, dated 11 June 1672 Isaac Newton c. 238 words The Newton Project Falmer 2014 Newton Project, University of Sussex

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 11 June 1672, in English, c. 242 words, 2 pp. 2 pp.

Published in H.W. Turnbull (ed), The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, vol. 1 (Cambridge: 1959), p. 193

Letter to to Henry Oldenburg for Ignatius-Gaston Pardies, dated 10 June 1672 [EL/N1/40]

in English

 EL/N1/39, Royal Society Library, London, UK UKLondonRoyal Society Library EL/N1/39 11 June 1672 England English Holograph Unknown Cataloguer (1) Unknown Cataloguer (2) Henry Oldenburg Unknown Hand (3) ScienceOpticsCorrespondence Transcription by Daniele Cassisa Code audited by Michael Hawkins
39 Newton 5 39

June 11th 1672.

Read June 12: 72.

Entd LB. 5. 252.

SrSir

I have sent you my Answers to Mr Hook & P. Pardies, wchwhich I hope will bring with ymthem ytthat satisfaction wchwhich I promised. And as there is nothing in Mr Hooks Considerations wthwith wchwhich I am not well contented, so I presume there is as little in mine wchwhich he can excep against, since you will easily see that I have industriously avoyded yethe intermixing of oblique & glancing expressions in my discourse. So ytthat I hope it will be needlesse to trouble the Heads of yethe R. Society to adjust matters. However if there should be any possibly be any thing esteemed of ytthat kind, I desire it may be interpreted candidly & with respect to Mthe contents of Mr Hooks Considerations, & I shall readily give way to yethe mitigation of whatsoever yethe Heads of yethe R. Society shall esteem personall. And concerning my former Answer to P. Pardies, I resigne to you yethe same liberty wchwhich he hath done for his Objections, of mollifying any expressions that may have a shew of harshnesse.

YorYour Servant

I. Newton.

A Letter to Mr Oldenburg concerning Mr Newtons Answers to yethe annotations of Mr Hook and P. Pardies upon his Theory of Light.

These

To henry Oldenburg Esquire at his house about yethe middle of yethe old Pall-maile in WestminterWestminster

London