Letter to Oldenburg on his experiments to show colour and light Isaac Newton c. 233 words The Newton Project Falmer 2014 Newton Project, University of Sussex

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 11 May 1676, in English, c. 239 words, 2 pp. 2 pp.

in English

Published in H.W. Turnbull (ed), The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, vol. 2 (Cambridge: 1960), p. 6.

 Letter to Oldenburg on delays conducting experiments [EL/N1/54] EL/N1/52, Royal Society Library, London, UK UKLondonRoyal Society Library EL/N1/52 11 May 1676 England English Holograph Henry Oldenburg Unknown Cataloguer (1) Unknown Cataloguer (2) ScienceOpticsCorrespondence Transcription by Daniele Cassisa Code audited by Michael Hawkins
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SSrSir

I hope Mr Linus's Friends will acquiesce in yethe late tryall of yethe ExptExperiment in depbait, for yethe procurement of wchwhich & for sending them notice of yethe event, I return you my hearty thanks, as I have reason. I perceive I went upon a wrong supposition in what I wrote concerning Mr Boyles Expt.Experiment The Papers in yoryour hand I have no present need of: You may send them at yoryour best leisure. Sometime this Sommer it's possible I may make use of them, if I can but get some time to write yethe other discourse about yethe colours of yethe Prism wchwhich I have long intended. SrSir I am

YorYour humble & obliged

Servant

Is. Newton.

Cambridge May 11th 1676.

For Henry Oldenburg Esqꝫ. at his house about yethe middle of yethe old Pal-mall in

Westminster

London.

2

Rec.Received d. 12. Maji. 1676.

Answ.Answered by Dr Sidnam May 15. 76. and sent by him his Hypothesis and discourse explaining yethe properties of Light; as also his discourse about yethe various colors exhibited by transparent substances made very thin by being blown into bubbles or otherwise form'ded into plates, altho at a greater thicknes they appear very clar clear and colorlesse.

In my letter accompanying these papers I imparted to Mr Newton yethe particulars contain'ded in M. Leibnitz his letter to me of May 12. 1676. from Paris st.n.