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Authorised form of nameNewton; Sir; Isaac (1642 - 1727); natural philosopher and mathematician
Dates1642 - 1727
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWoolsthorpe Manor, Colsterworth, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, Europe
Date of birth25 December 1642
Place of deathKensington, London, England, Europe
Date of death20 March 1727
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Westminster Abbey, London, England, Europe
OccupationMathematician; natural philosopher
Research fieldMathematics
Dynamics
Mechanics
Celestial mechanics
Astronomy
Optics
Natural philosophy
ActivityEducation:
Grantham Grammar School; Trinity College, Cambridge, BA (1665), MA (1668)
Career:
Left Cambridge because of the plague and spent two years at Woolsthorpe, where he did most of the work on colours and mechanics, including gravity, later published in the 'Principia Mathematica' and 'Opticks' (1665-1667); Fellow of Trinity (1667-death); Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge (1669-1701); MP for Cambridge University (1689, 1701); Warden of the Mint (1696); Master of the Mint (1699-death); Commissioner for Assessment for Cambridge, Cambridge University and Lincolnshire (1689-1690); acknowledged throughout Europe as a great scientist, philosopher and mathematician, he was involved in bitter controversies with Robert Hooke (FRS 1663), with Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (FRS 1673) over the calculus and with John Flamsteed (FRS 1677) over the publication of his astronomical observations; his body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster; Benefactor to the chapels of Christ's and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge and to Addenbrooke's Hospital
Honours:
Kt 1705
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/01/1672
Age at election29
ProposerSeth Ward
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
PRS 1703-1727; Council 1697, 1699
Other Royal Society activityProposed changes to the elections and admissions process of new Fellows (1706);
Gifted a total of £190 to the Society for promoting natural philosophy
RelationshipsParents: Isaac Newton and Hannah Ayscough
PublishedWorksA selection includes:
RCN: 18819
RCN: R83704
RCN: 18577
RCN: R69334
RCN: 69287
RCN: R69324
OtherInfoAcknowledged throughout Europe as a great scientist, philosopher and mathematician, he was involved in bitter controversies with Robert Hooke (FRS 1663), with Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (FRS 1673) over the calculus and with John Flamsteed (FRS 1677) over the publication of his astronomical observations.
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SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Hunter; Venn; Henning
AssocMaterial:
Newton papers are available online, at (1) Newton Project, Sussex University - http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=1
(2) Also at National Library of Israel - http://dlib.nli.org.il/R/?func=collections&collection_id=7856
Papers deposited at King's College Cambridge;
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Notes:
Dates of birth and death given according to the Julian Calendar.
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M/162Farthing coin of Isaac Newton1793
IM/003305Newton, Sir Isaacnd
IM/003288Apple Tree1995
M/180Newton, Sir Isaac1727
M/160Newton, Sir Isaac
EL/N1/61Paper, 'De Trigonometri Sphric Rectangul' by Isaac Newtonnd
IM/003279Newton, Sir Isaacnd
IM/003302Newton, Sir Isaacnd
IM/003269Newton, Sir Isaacnd
IM/003270Newton, Sir Isaac1996
IM/003300Newton, Sir Isaac1991
M/161Halfpenny token of Isaac Newton1793
IM/003301Newton, Sir Isaacnd
MM/1/14Letter from J Mill, Oxford, to Isaac Newton21 February 1693
M/179Newton, Sir Isaac1726
IM/003303Newton, Sir Isaacnd
MM/5/41Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester, to Isaac Newton13 February 1697
IM/003310Newton, Sir Isaacnd
IM/003292Newton, Sir Isaac2001
M/158Newton, Sir Isaac
IM/003282Newton, Sir Isaaccirca 1725
IM/003285Newton, Sir Isaacnd
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IM/003265Newton, Sir Isaacnd
MM/16/107"Zu Isaak Newtons 200 Todestage", by Albert Einstein
IM/003307Newton, Sir Isaac1993
IM/003299Newton, Sir Isaacnd
IM/003293Newton, Sir Isaac2001
MC/6/195Letter from Joseph Jopling, 6 Vassall Terrace, Campden Grove, Kensington, to the Secretary of the Royal Society8 January 1862
MM/17/2Letter from George Gabriel Stokes to HE Roscoe17 October 1892
MM/5/43Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester, to Isaac Newton30 December 1697
MM/6/86Letter from John Collins to John Wallis14 February 1676
IM/003306Newton, Sir Isaacnd
IM/003294Newton, Sir Isaacnd
EL/N1/51Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge29 February 1676
MM/5/40Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester Mint, to Isaac Newton28 November 1696
RBO/12/35'Remarks upon the Observations made upon a Chronological Index of Sir Isaac Newton'nd
IM/005379Newton, Sir Isaacnd
RBO/4/44'A discourse Of Mr Isaac Newton containing his New Theory about Light and Colours, sent by him from Cambridge February 6 1672'1672
IM/003281Newton, Sir IsaacApril 1928
MM/17/104Letter from John H Knowles to Herbert Rix, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society9 September 1895
MM/17/1Letter from George Gabriel Stokes to HE Roscoe17 October 1892
MM/17/106Letter from RT Glazebrook to Herbert Rix, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society24 October [1895]
MM/17/103Letter from RT Glazebrook to Herbert Rix, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society1 August [1895]
MM/17/105Letter from John H Knowles to Herbert Rix, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society9 October 1895
IM/003298Newton, Sir Isaac1942
DM/2/159GF Tupper, 'Estimate of Facsimile & Printing Sir Isaac Newton's Letters in Lithograph'nd
MM/5/47Letter from Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Paris, to the Royal Society9 June 1714
DM/2/156Note about some papers by Sir Isaac Newton in the collection of the Earl of Portsmouth18th century
RBO/4/45Robert Hooke's considerations of Isaac Newton's discourse of light and colour1672
IM/003261Newton, Sir Isaacnd
DM/5/47Draft of a letter from Isaac Newton to the Board of Ordnance, giving the recommendations of the Visitors of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, as regards certain improvements needed therec.1710
DM/5/48Draft of a letter from Isaac Newton to the Board of Ordnance, on the report of the Visitors of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich 24 August 1713
EL/N1/63Observations of the sun and moon at the spring equinox by Isaac Newtonnd
RBO/9/37Copy of Isaac Newton's table showing the quantity and degrees of heatnd
DM/5/45Draft of a petition from the Royal Society to Queen Anne, for leave to petition Parliament to insert a clause 'in the bill now depending...for impowering your Majesty to grant them a piece of land' in the Royal Mews, for the purpose of building a house for the Society1700s
IM/003267Newton, Sir IsaacSeptember 2002
MM/5/42Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester, to Isaac Newton2 August 1697
IM/005411Newton, Sir Isaac1992
IM/003280Newton, Sir Isaacnd
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S/0045Maquette of Newton, Sir Isaac1849
IM/005373Newton, Sir Isaac1990
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P/0093Portrait of Newton, Sir Isaac
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MC/4/184Letter from Henry Garling, 27 Bedford Row, to the Secretary of the Royal Society25 October 1847
CMB/2/26Statutes Committee1878
MOB/095Mahogany armchair late 18th century
MS/81Original letters printed in 'Commercium Epistolicum Domini Johannis Collins et Aliorum'1669-1677
NLB/7/574Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Harvey & Gore17 March 1893
NLB/7/594Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Harvey & Gore, 1 Vigo Streeet, W.20 March 1893
NLB/11/564Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Mr J H Knowles, 15 Rush Hill Road, Lavender Hill, S.W.24 July 1895
NLB/11/792Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr J H Knowles, 15 Rush Hill Road, Lavender Hill, S.W.8 October 1895
NLB/11/795Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Fellow of the Royal Society8 October 1895
NLB/11/794Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society8 October 1895
NLB/11/813Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Evans, Treasurer, Royal Society10 October 1895
NLB/11/917Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society4 November 1895
MM/6/85Letter from Emanuel Mendes da Costa to Earl of Morton4 April 1766
NLB/54/757Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to M. le General de Schokalsky12 September 1917
NLB/57/800Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ronald Ross, FRS, KCB9 February 1920
NLB/57/732Copy letter from AH White, Assistant Librarian of the Royal Society; to R Sweeting Esq; 621-627 Chamber of [commerce? typed over]30 January 1920
L&P/1/120/1Paper, 'A true copy of a paper found, in the handwriting of Sir Isaac Newton, among the papers of the late Dr Halley containing a description of an Instrument for observing the distance form the Fixt Stars at Sea' 1742
MC/4/185Letter from Henry Garling, 27 Bedford Row, to Charles Richard Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]26 October 1847
CLP/21/13Paper, 'Of [Isaac] Newton's Principia' by Edmond Halley1687
S/0048Sculpture bust of Newton, Sir Isaac1718
MOB/011Cast of Isaac Newton with hair lock18th century
MOB/007Fragments of wood from Woolsthorpe Manorlate 17th century
MOB/008Wooden rulers from Woolsthorpe Manorlate 17th century
MOB/009Death mask of Isaac Newtonc.1727
MOB/005Reflecting telescope by Isaac Newton1671
AP/5/20/1Unpublished manuscript, 'An essay on the cause of the phenomena offered by a soap-water bubble' by Thomas Lee30 August 1786
IM/003277Newton, Sir Isaac1712
MM/5/49Letter from Brooke Taylor, near Canterbury, to Isaac Newton22 April 1716
IM/003286Newton, Sir Isaacnd
M/163Newton, Sir Isaac
IM/003271Newton, Sir Isaac1995
A/0187Woolsthorpe Manor1946
MM/17/39Letter from Isaac Newton to JF Fauquier 27 July 1720
MM/17/14Letter from CM Ingleby to the Secretary of the Royal Society9 February 1880
MM/20/37Letter from Thomas le Seur and Francois Jacquier to Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary, Royal Society9 January 1741
RBO/4/39'Isaaci Newtoni Matheseos in Acad. Cantab. professoris Inventum Novum quo Telescopia longa insigniter contrahuntur citra effecti fraudem'nd
IM/003289Newton, Sir Isaacnd
DM/5/44'Articles of Agreement for a building in Crane Court in Fleet Street for the Honorary Royal Society'28 May 1711
A/0212Newton's Reflecting Telescope1672
DM/5/100A list of benefactors to the Library, to the value of £5 or upwards at one time c.1737
IM/003278Newton, Sir Isaacnd
IM/003260Newton, Sir Isaacnd
IM/003312Newton, Sir Isaac2000
IM/003263Newton, Sir Isaacnd
IM/003274Newton, Sir Isaacnd
IM/003291Newton, Sir Isaacnd
IM/005328Newton, Sir Isaac1991
MM/6/5Alchemical notes by Isaac Newton
NLB/11/575Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr J H Knowles, 15 Rush Hill Road, S.W.25 July 1895
EL/N1/64Copy of a letter, from Isaac Newton, Hans Sloane, Richard Mead, Edmond Halley, and Abraham Hill to John Flamsteed, dated at Crane Court1712
NLB/15/341Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr William James Russell, Fellow of the Royal Society14 August 1897
EL/W2/48Letter, from John Wallis to Isaac Newton, dated at Oxford10 April 1695
M/159Newton, Sir Isaac
MM/16/110"Description of an instrument for observing the distance of the moon from the fixed stars at sea", by Isaac Newton16 August 1699
IM/003272Newton, Sir Isaacnd
IM/003273Newton, Sir Isaac1726
NLB/7/602Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Evans21 March 1893
NLB/11/738Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Knowles, 15 Rush Hill Road, Lavender Hill, S.W.27 September 1895
EL/N1/47Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg23 June 1673
NLB/57/819Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr JWL [James Whitbread Lee] Glaisher, FRS13 February 1920
CLP/18ii/6/1Manuscript, 'An account of some experiments of light and colours formerly made by the President and mention'd in his Optics, repeated before the Royal Society' by John Theoph [Theophilus] Desaguliers 24 June 1714
IM/000503Quartet engravingnd
MOB/010Lock of Isaac Newton's hairearly 18th century
MS/57Astronomical tracts with observations by Tycho Brahe and others1585-1596
S/0050Lock of hair of Newton, Sir Isaac
S/0027Maquette of 'Newton after Blake'1995
MOB/006Sundial by Isaac Newton17th century
MS/69Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica1685
MS/64A commentary on Newton's 'Principia'18th century
MC/1/6Letter from Antide Mangin, 334 Rue des Mathurins, Paris, to the Royal Society1 October 1800
MC/1/46Letter from Francesco Colangelo, Naples, to the Royal Society4 October 1815
MC/1/99Letter from Walter Forman, 4 Pierrepoint Buildings, Bath, to the Royal Society4 December 1823
CLP/2/16/1Manuscript, 'An account of a catadioptrick telescope made after the invention of Sir Isaac Newton' by John HadleyFebruary 1723
MC/1/192Letter from Davies Gilbert, President of the Royal Society, 45 Bridge Street, to Sir Thomas Lawrence [?]7 January 1830
MC/1/200Letter from Peter Clare and John James Tayler, [Secretaries of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society], to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society27 February 1830
MC/2Volume 2 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1832-1838
MC/2/26Letter from John [?] Herapath, 2 Upper Bedford Place, Kensington, to [Prince Augustus Frederick], President of the Royal Society16 February 1832
MC/2/270Letter from [Charles] Turnor, Doctor's Common, to the Royal Society24 January 1838
PT/70/14/2Diagram, flow of two branches of curve by [James Joseph Sylvester][1864]
P/0094Portrait of Newton, Sir Isaac1725
S/0041Maquette of Newton, Sir Isaac1857
MC/1Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1800-1831
CLP/11ii/16Paper, 'Observations on last weeke's experiment to demonstrate the phlogiston or aether in mars and oil of vitriol by explosion, and how to condense it' by unknown author1 February 1730
EL/OB/94Extract of a letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge26 April 1676
EL/N1/45Extract of a letter, from Isaac Newton to John Collins1672
EL/N1/65Letter, from Isaac Newton to Louis d'Aumont3 June 1714
EL/N1/56Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley14 July 1686
EL/N1/49Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge30 November 1675
EL/Q/7Letter, from Monsieur du Quet to Isaac Newton, dated at Parisnd
EL/N1/44Extract of a letter, from Isaac Newton to John Collins1672
EL/O2/92Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Isaac Newton, dated at London16 July 1672
AP/1/20/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Newtons allgemeine, und hiernach, bloß als einzelner Fall, bestätigte Keplerische, Bestimmung der fortschreitenden Bewegung der Himmelskörper, möglichst klar entwickelt, auf die Urelemente des höheren Kalküls zurückgeführt, und dem verborgenen subtilen Rechnungsgange nach enthüllt' by Count George de Bagory[early 19th century]
AP/1/20/6Unpublished diagrams, geometric figures by [George de Bagory][early 19th century]
AP/1/20/5Unpublished diagrams, geometric figures by [George de Bagory][early 19th century]
MC/4/281Letter from Reverend [Charles John] Elliott, Winkfield Vicarage, Windsor, to the Secretary of the Royal Society11 May 1849
AP/1/20/4Unpublished diagrams, geometric figures by [George de Bagory][early 19th century]
AP/1/20/2Unpublished diagrams, geometric figures by [George de Bagory][early 19th century]
S/0018Sculpture bust of Newton, Sir Isaac
MC/4/337Letter from [William Henry] Smyth, 3 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, to [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]23 March 1850
AP/5/20/2Unpublished letter, introduction to paper on colour theory from Tho [Thomas] Lee to the Royal Society30 August 1786
MC/4Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1844-1850
MC/5/82Letter from Frederick Manning, London, to [Thomas Bell and Samuel Hunter Christie], the Secretaries of the Royal Society3 February 1853
EL/L5/108Letter, from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to Isaac Newton, dated at Hanover17 March 1693
CLP/1/43Paper, 'The report of what was contained in Mr de Moivres papers opend before the Society on 5th of May 1720' by unknown author5 May 1720
CLP/1/30Paper, on mathematical problems by Johannes [Jean] Bernoulli [1697]
AP/5/20Unpublished letter and paper, 'An essay on the cause of the phenomena offered by a soap-water bubble' by Thomas Lee30 August 1786
AP/6/16/2Unpublished letter, regarding errors in philosophy from Michael Shipman to Alexander Hogg17 January 1789
MC/5/315Letter from Viscount Enfield, [George Byng], Wrotham Park, Barnet, to the Secretary of the Royal Society22 November 1857
MC/5Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1851-1858
EL/N1/57Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley27 July 1686
EL/N1/60Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley, dated at Cambridge1 March 1687
MC/6/41Letter from Purnell B [Bransby] Purnell, County Chairman of Gloucestershire, Stancombe Park, Dursley, to the Council of the Royal Society, Burlington House26 October 1859
MC/6/42Letter from Purnell B [Bransby] Purnell, Stancombe Park, Gloucestershire, to [Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie], President of the Royal Society and to the Council, Burlington House31 October 1859
EL/N1/59Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley, dated at Trinity College Cambridge13 February 1686
AP/8/14Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the new theory for explaining the coloured appearances of thin plates, lately published in the Transactions of this Society' by G [Gibbes] Walker Jordan16 February 1811
EL/N1/39Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg11 June 1672
MC/6/143Letter from Joseph Jopling, 6 Vassall Terrace, Kensington, to C R [Charles Richard] Weld, Royal Society23 May 1861
MC/6/187Letter from Joseph Jopling, 6 Vassall Terrace, Campden Grove, Kensington, to the Secretary of the Royal Society3 December 1861
AP/14/9/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On some new optical phaenomena' from John Herapath to Davies Gilbert15 June 1830
AP/15/1/3Unpublished diagrams, light deflecting around obstacles by [John Barton][1831]
MC/6/204Copy letter from G Pett, Llandudno, North Wales, to [Joseph Jopling]12 February 1862
MC/6/197Letter from Carl Haag, 16 New Burlington Street, to Dr [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly24 January 1862
MC/6/196Letter from Joseph Jopling, 6 Vassall Terrace, Campden Grove, Kensington, to the Secretary of the Royal Society11 January 1862
MC/6/192Letter from Joseph Jopling, 6 Vassall Terrace, Campden Grove, Kensington, to the Secretary of the Royal Society29 December 1861
MC/6/203Letter from Joseph Jopling, 6 Vassall Terrace, Campden Grove, Kensington, to the Secretary of the Royal Society13 February 1862
AP/16/4Unpublished paper, 'Trisection of any angle by means of a peculiar curve' by Alfred Burton1831
MC/6Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1859-1863
AP/14/9Unpublished letter, 'On some new optical phaenomena' from John Herapath to Davies Gilbert15 June 1830
AP/13/26Unpublished paper and letter, 'The cause of the effect called attraction' by J K Smythies[1827]
AP/13/26/1Unpublished letter, regarding gravity from J K Smythies to unknown recipient12 January 1827
AP/13/26/2Unpublished manuscript, 'The cause of the effect called attraction' by J K Smythies[1827]
AP/14/9/3Unpublished diagram, five sets of light rings by John Herapath15 June 1830
AP/14/9/4Unpublished diagram, overlapping light rings by John Herapath15 June 1830
AP/14/9/5Unpublished diagram, overlapping light rings by John Herapath15 June 1830
AP/14/9/2Unpublished diagram, light rings by John Herapath15 June 1830
AP/15/1/7Unpublished diagrams, incline of shadows by [John Barton][1831]
AP/15/1/2Unpublished diagrams, opaque bodies blocking sun's rays by [John Barton][1831]
AP/15/1/4Unpublished diagrams, measurement of light deflection by [John Barton][1831]
AP/15/1/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On the inflexion of light' by John Barton[1831]
AP/15/1/5Unpublished diagrams, sunlight passing around card and light currents by [John Barton][1831]
AP/15/1/6Unpublished diagram, shadow experiments with cards by [John Barton][1831]
EL/O2/64Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Isaac Newton2 January 1672
EL/N1/48Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg13 November 1675
EL/N1/41Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge30 July 1672
EL/N1/54Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge22 August 1676
EL/N1/42Continuation of an extract of a letter, from Isaac Newton to John Collinsnd
AP/1/20Unpublished paper, 'Newtons allgemeine, und hiernach, bloß als einzelner Fall, bestätigte Keplerische, Bestimmung der fortschreitenden Bewegung der Himmelskörper, möglichst klar entwickelt, auf die Urelemente des höheren Kalküls zurückgeführt, und dem verborgenen subtilen Rechnungsgange nach enthüllt' by Count George de Bagory[early 19th century]
CLP/16/15Paper, 'Remarks upon the dissertation lately published at Paris, by the Reverend P Souciet, against Isaac Newton's chronology' by Edmond Halley1727
CLP/2/16Paper, 'An account of a catadioptrick telescope made after the invention of Sir Isaac Newton' by John HadleyFebruary 1723
RBO/13/8'Remarks upon the Dissections lately published at Paris by the Reverend P Souciet against Sir Isaac Newton'1727
RBO/13/9'Some further Remarks on P Souciet's Dissertation against Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology in a letter to Dr Jurin by Dr Halley'1727
RBO/9/88Letter of Gandolphe to Isaac Newton 1709
L&P/1/120/2Plate, 'An instrument for observing the distance form the fixt stars at sea' by unknown artist1742
CLP/18ii/6Paper, 'An account of some experiments of light and colours formerly made by the President and mention'd in his Optics, repeated before the Royal Society' by John Theoph [Theophilus] Desaguliers 24 June 1714
CLP/2/16/2Plate, four figures showing the catadioptric telescope and Saturn by I [John] Sturt[1723]
AP/18/2Unpublished paper, 'On the connexion between refracted and diffracted light' by Paul CooperJanuary 1834
AP/18/2/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On the connexion between refracted and diffracted light' by Paul CooperJanuary 1834
AP/18/3/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On the number of primitive colorific rays into which white light may be separated' by Paul Cooper21 January 1834
AP/21/8Unpublished paper, 'An attempt to account for the discrepancy between the actual velocity of sound in air or vapour and that resulting from theory' by William RitchieNovember 1836
PT/70/14/1Manuscript, ['Algebraical researches, containing a disquisition on Newton’s rule for the discovery of imaginary roots, and an allied rule applicable to a particular class of equations, together with a complete invariantive determination of the character of the roots of the general equation of the fifth degree, &c'] by [James Joseph] Sylvester[1864]
CLP/3ii/5Paper, 'Proposals about the machine to get good air for respiration and vegetation' by D [Denis] Papin[1709]
AP/28/18Unpublished paper, 'On Sir Isaac Newton's method of finding the limits of the roots of equations' by Herbert Panmure Ribton 20 December 1845
CLP/7ii/4Paper, 'A dissertation concerning the figure of the Earth' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers1724
RBO/6/62Definitions by Isaac Newton10 December 1684
CLP/7ii/5Paper, 'A dissertation concerning the figure of the Earth. Part the second' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers1725
CLP/7ii/5/1Manuscript, 'A dissertation concerning the figure of the Earth. Part the second' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers1725
CLP/7ii/4/1Manuscript, 'A dissertation concerning the figure of the Earth' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers1724
MOB/108Mounted wooden hemispherelate 17th century
MOB/109Wooden prismlate 17th century
CLP/1/10Paper, on quadratic equations by Mr [George?] Campbel [Campbell][1728]
AP/1/20/3Unpublished diagrams, geometric figures by [George de Bagory][early 19th century]
EL/H3/44Letter, from Edmond Halley to Isaac Newton22 May
EL/N1/36Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg19 March 1671
EL/N1/43Extract of a letter, from Isaac Newton to John Collins1672
EL/N1/46Letter, from Isaac Newton to John Collins, dated at Cambridge9 April 1672
RBO/9/63Isaac Newton's opinion of Denis Papin's proposals for making a water-raising engine1707
EL/N1/37Diagram, figure of reflecting telescope with explanations by Isaac Newton1672
EL/N1/50Note about reflecting telescope by Isaac Newton nd
CLP/16/14Paper, 'Remarques upon the observations made upon a chronological index' by Isaac Newton 1725
EL/N1/35Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge16 March 1671
L&P/7/157Paper, 'Of Sir Isaac Newton's second law of motion and on an engine for turning ovals' by William Ludlam1780
RBO/13/90'Extract from a Letter of Doctor Eustachio Manfredi of Bologna to Sir Thomas Dereham relating to Rizzetti's Book against Sir Isaac Newton'1728
CLP/7ii/9Letter, regarding observations of the tides of the River Thames [London] using the marine surveyor from Henry de Saumarez to Isaac Newton and the Royal Society8 December 1725
RBO/5/4'Mr Isaac Newton's Observations Mentioned in his foregoing Hypothesis, and conducing to further Discoveries for completing his Theory of Light and Colors [colours]'1676
RBO/7/83'An Account of Some effects of 'horned poppy" by Issac Newtonnd
L&P/1/120Paper, 'A true copy of a paper found, in the handwriting of Sir Isaac Newton, among the papers of the late Dr Halley containing a description of an Instrument for observing the distance form the Fixt Stars at Sea' by Isaac Newton1742
EL/N1/38Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge13 April 1672
EL/N1/53Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge18 August 1676
EL/N1/55Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley, dated at Cambridge20 June 1686
EL/N1/58Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley, dated at Trinity College Cambridge18 October 1686
PT/70/14Paper, ['Algebraical researches, containing a disquisition on Newton’s rule for the discovery of imaginary roots, and an allied rule applicable to a particular class of equations, together with a complete invariantive determination of the character of the roots of the general equation of the fifth degree, &c'] by [James Joseph] Sylvester[1864]
CLP/18ii/7/1Manuscript, 'An account of some experiments made before the Royal Society concerning the properties of light and colours' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers1714
CLP/18ii/7Paper, 'An account of some experiments made before the Royal Society concerning the properties of light and colours' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers1714
CLP/18ii/13Paper, 'An account of an optical experiment made before the Royal Society on Thursday 6 and 13 December 1722' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers1722
CLP/4i/39Paper, 'An account of a hurricane in which the polarity of the needle was changed', communicated by Sir Isaac Newton1683
AP/29/2Unpublished paper, 'A comparison of the first and second editions of the "Commercium Epistolicum D Johannis Collins et aliorum de analysi promota' by A [Augustus] de Morgan23 November 1846
AP/15/1Unpublished paper, 'On the inflexion of light' by John Barton[1831]
P/0095Portrait of Newton, Sir Isaac1717
S/0047Death mask of Newton, Sir Isaac1727
P/0092Portrait of Newton, Sir Isaac1727
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