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Transcripts of correspondence with Robert Hooke and Edmund Halley

Hooke to Newton 24 Dec. 1677; N to H 5 Mar. 1677; 18 Dec. 1677; 28 Nov. 1679; N to Halley 27 May 1686; H to N 17 Jun. 1679; H's Statement of state of controversy between them. Presumably copied for the Newton MSS Syndicate.

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician

Transcripts of correspondence

Newton to Sir Alexander - ; Hannah Barton to Newton; Newton to Hooke 8 Jun. 1678; Newton to Mr. Fatis 10 Nov. 1692; Newton to Hooke 18 May 1678; Hooke to Newton 25 May 1678. Newton scientific notes headed "Refractio horizontalis". Presumably made for the Newton MSS Syndicate.

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician

Papers of John Couch Adams

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  • 1701-1996

The papers comprise Adams's correspondence, notes and diaries, correspondence after his death, transcripts of correspondence and papers made for Donald MacAlister, biographical and miscellaneous material.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter to Roger Cotes

Draft of letter for which the final version does not survive, of late Jul./early Aug. 1712, containing a draft of the Scholium to Proposition 35 of the Principia, 2nd ed., 1713. See A.R. Hall and L. Tilling (eds.) The correspondence of Isaac Newton. Vol. 5, 1709-1713. CUP, 1975. pp 315-319, letters 929 and 931.

The letter was discovered in JCA's papers with letters from D. Brewster, March - May 1855, (Box 5/37), and had evidently been sent to Brewster for comment and returned, through the post.

The remainder of Newton's drafts of letters to Cotes are among the Portsmouth Papers in CUL, and the final versions (other than that of this letter), are in Trinity College Library.

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician

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