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Reference numberEL/N1/40
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg for Ignatius-Gaston Pardies, dated at Cambridge
CreatorNewton; Sir; Isaac (1642-1727); natural philosopher; mathematician
Date10 June 1672
DescriptionDiscusses the doctrine of light and colour and reiterates the 'experimentum crucis' in detail
Figure in text
LanguageLatin
Extent6p
FormatManuscript
Place originCambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Origin coordinates52.2, 0.11667
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Access statusOpen
Related materialTranscribed and paraphrased in 'The correspondence of Isaac Newton', ed by H W Turnbull (Cambridge, 1959), vol 1, p 163
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 7, no 85, p 5014
B&W negative, of diagram, Box N101. IM/005328
Related records in the catalogueIM/005328
URL descriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/b38ed3b9-1d51-4583-9cac-af04ea055f76
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8001Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondentc1619 - 1677
NA8414Newton; Sir; Isaac (1642 - 1727); natural philosopher and mathematician1642 - 1727
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