St John‘s College Personal Collections

Copy of J.C. Adams's copy of 2 small notebooks of Newton's

Adams/Box 39/19/1
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1659-1669

Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

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

Transcripts of correspondence with Robert Hooke and Edmund Halley

Adams/Box 27/6
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5 Mar. 1677-27 May 1686

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

Adams/Box 27/7
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18 May 1678-10 Nov. 1692

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

Annotated flyleaf from early 18th century book

Adams/Box 43-44/Box 44/8/4
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1701-1704

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

With various annotations: 'Robert Gardner 1701', 'for to heal and clens a wound ...', mathematical diagram, 'Avery Taylor 1704'.

Gardner, Robert (fl 1701-1704)

Autograph letter to Roger Cotes

Adams/Box 19/19/1/1
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July 1712-Aug. 1712 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

Memoranda

Adams/Box 39/1/1
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7 Aug. 1837-16 Feb. 1837 (7 Aug. 1837, 16 Feb. 1844, 12 Feb. 1844.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J. Challis

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 15/47/1
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2 May 1837

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Sends paper for publication by Camb. Phil. Soc. ["On the theory of the equilibrium of bodies in contact". Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. Vol.6 (1838)]. On the physics of buttresses, piers, dykes etc. Comments on the state of modern physics.

Moseley, Henry (1801-1872) mathematician and writer on mechanics

Memoranda