Further Newton correspondence

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ID20316518
AuthorsA Rupert Hall (14 Ball Lane, Tackley, Oxford, corresponding author)
EditorsReginald Victor Jones (14 Ball Lane, Tackley, Oxford), William Drummond MacDonald Paton (14 Ball Lane, Tackley, Oxford)
Year1982
Volume37
Issue1
Pages7-34
Publication date1982-08-31
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNotes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0035-9149 • E-ISSN: 1743-0178
PublisherThe Royal Society (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1098/rsnr.1982.0003
OpenAlexW2119070591
LanguageEN
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It is very unlikely that a group of thirty unknown ‘Newton letters’ will ever appear again. The group itself we recorded in vol. VII of The Correspondence of Isaac Newton (p. 357) when its whereabouts were unknown to us; it had been sold as Lot 129 in the great Sotheby sale of 1936. The purchaser was Dr Erik Waller, after whose death the letters passed with the rest of his collection into the Library of the University of Uppsala, which kindly supplied photocopies of them. I am very grateful to Mr Andrew Brown of the Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, who brought these letters to my attention. In fact, only two of them (X.984 and X .i342.1) are from ‘Newton’s pen’— and both of these are copies; these only, together with the Newtonian drafts from the Cambridge University Library here added to. the Uppsala letters for the sake of completeness (all of these drafts having been discovered by Dr Whiteside) I have printed here as accurately as possible. The letters to Newton in the Uppsala group, for the most part in Latin, I have reproduced in English, often severely abbreviated. Many of them are no more than letters of thanks for copies of Opticks, or for election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society

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