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RefNoEL/N1/59
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley, dated at Trinity College Cambridge
CreatorNewton; Sir; Isaac (1642-1727); natural philosopher; mathematician
Date13 February 1686
DescriptionCorrections on 'Principia'; concerning Wallis's work on projectiles; concerning Newton's solution of Halley's problem about the sun's parallax
LanguageEnglish
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
Place originTrinity College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Origin coordinates52.2, 0.11667
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialTranscribed in 'The correspondence of Isaac Newton', ed by H W Turnbull (Cambridge, 1959), vol 2, p 464
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/fb07fc1f-22e3-443a-9785-918e660f6f49
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CodePersonNameDates
NA8423Halley; Edmond (1656 - 1742); astronomer1656 - 1742
NA8414Newton; Sir; Isaac (1642 - 1727); natural philosopher and mathematician1642 - 1727
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