St John‘s College Personal Collections

Autograph letter signed from Taylor to John Newcome

TaylorB/E/E1
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24 Nov. 1711

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

Sends Newcome his table of refractions and discusses it. Discusses the lottery.

Autograph draft letter signed from Taylor to John Machin

TaylorB/E/E2
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26 July 1712

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

Sets out 'Taylor's theorem'.

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

Commonplace book in English, Latin and French

TaylorB/A/A3
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1712 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

Contains notes on English law, mathematics and theology. The mathematical material includes notes on fluxions, statics, attraction, ratios, oscillation, and refraction, dated 1712. Also contains some 19th-century notes. In vellum binding with ties.

Mathematical notes including propositions, theorems, problems, calculations, and diagrams

TaylorB/C/C1
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1712–1713 (Circa)

Part of Papers of Brook Taylor

Latin and English. Some of the material is not in Taylor's hand. Includes notes on the extraction of roots, 'Of lines divided harmonically', 'Domini Keil ... solutio problematis Kepleriani' (1 Oct. 1712), and a note dated 10 March 1712/13 recording an experiment on vibrations in a string.

Copy by Taylor of a letter from Mr Cotes to Mr Jones