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Authorised form of name Newton; Sir; Isaac (1642 - 1727); natural philosopher and mathematician
Dates 1642 - 1727
Nationality British
Place of birth Woolsthorpe Manor, Colsterworth, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, Europe
Date of birth 25 December 1642
Place of death Kensington, London, England, Europe
Date of death 20 March 1727
DatesAndPlaces Burial:
Westminster Abbey, London, England, Europe
Occupation Mathematician; natural philosopher
Research field Mathematics
Dynamics
Mechanics
Celestial mechanics
Astronomy
Optics
Natural philosophy
Activity Education:
Grantham Grammar School; Trinity College, Cambridge, BA (1665), MA (1668)
Career:
Left Cambridge because of the plague and spent two years at Woolsthorpe, where he did most of the work on colours and mechanics, including gravity, later published in the 'Principia Mathematica' and 'Opticks' (1665-1667); Fellow of Trinity (1667-death); Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge (1669-1701); MP for Cambridge University (1689, 1701); Warden of the Mint (1696); Master of the Mint (1699-death); Commissioner for Assessment for Cambridge, Cambridge University and Lincolnshire (1689-1690); acknowledged throughout Europe as a great scientist, philosopher and mathematician, he was involved in bitter controversies with Robert Hooke (FRS 1663), with Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (FRS 1673) over the calculus and with John Flamsteed (FRS 1677) over the publication of his astronomical observations; his body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster; Benefactor to the chapels of Christ's and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge and to Addenbrooke's Hospital
Honours:
Kt 1705
Membership category Fellow
Date of election 11/01/1672
Age at election 29
Proposer Seth Ward
RSActivity Royal Society roles:
PRS 1703-1727; Council 1697, 1699
Other Royal Society activity Proposed changes to the elections and admissions process of new Fellows (1706);
Gifted a total of £190 to the Society for promoting natural philosophy
Relationships Parents: Isaac Newton and Hannah Ayscough
PublishedWorks A selection includes:
RCN: 18819
RCN: R83704
RCN: 18577
RCN: R69334
RCN: 69287
RCN: R69324
OtherInfo Acknowledged throughout Europe as a great scientist, philosopher and mathematician, he was involved in bitter controversies with Robert Hooke (FRS 1663), with Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (FRS 1673) over the calculus and with John Flamsteed (FRS 1677) over the publication of his astronomical observations.
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Source Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Hunter; Venn; Henning
AssocMaterial:
Newton papers are available online, at (1) Newton Project, Sussex University - http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=1
(2) Also at National Library of Israel - http://dlib.nli.org.il/R/?func=collections&collection_id=7856
Papers deposited at King's College Cambridge;
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A E Shapiro, 'Huygens' Traite de la Lumiere and Newton's Opticks: Pursuing and Eschewing Hypotheses' in NR 1989 vol 43 pp 223-247
A R Hall, 'Newtonianism After 300 Years' in NR 1988 vol 42 pp 5-9
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A Rupert Hall, review of The Preliminary Manuscripts for Isaac Newton's 1687 Principia 1684-1685. Facsimiles of the Original Autographs, Now in Cambridge University Library in NR 1990 vol 44 pp 307-309
Anita McConnell, 'L F Marsigli's Visit to London in 1721, and his Report on the Royal Society' in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 179-204
D G King-Hele, 'Introductory Remarks' in NR 1988 vol 42 p 3, plate
D L Simms and P L Hinkley, 'Brighter Than How Many Suns? Sir Isaac Newton's Burning Mirror' in NR 1989 vol 43 pp 31-51
D T Whiteside, 'The Evolution of the Principia from 1665 to 1686' in NR 1988 vol 42 p 11
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D W Hughes, 'The Principia and Comets' in NR 1988 vol 42 pp 53-74
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G J Whitrow, 'Newton's Role in the History of Mathematics' in NR 1989 vol 43 pp 71-92
H A M Snelders, 'Christiaan Huygens and Newton's Theory of Gravitation' in NR 1989 vol 43 pp 209-222
I Bernard Cohen, 'Newton's Description of the Reflecting Telescope' in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 1-9
J M T Thompson, 'The Principia and Contemporary Mechanics: Chaotic Dynamics and the New Unpredictability' in NR 1988 vol 42 pp 97-122
M C W Hunter, 'The Crown, the Public and the New Science, 1689-1702' in NR 1989 vol 43 pp 99-116
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P Casini, 'Newton's Principia and the Philosophers of the Enlightenment' in NR 1988 vol 42 pp 35-52
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J S Rowlinson, 'Le Sage's Essai de chymie mechanique' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 35-45
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J H Appleby, 'The founding of St Petersburg in the context of the Royal Society's relationship with Russia' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 273-284
R Iliffe and J Young, 'Report. Newton on the net: first and prospective fruits of a Royal Society grant' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 83-88
M Hunter, 'Report. Robert Hooke revivified' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 89-91
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R Higgett, 'President, patron, friend and lover: Charles Montagu's significance to the history of science' in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 155-170
A Belenkiy & E V Echague, 'History of one defeat: reform of the Julian calendar as envisaged by Isaac Newton' in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 223-254
R MacFarlane, 'Royal Society Miscellaneous Manuscripts' in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 309-312
J T Young, 'Newton on the Net: an update' in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 313-316
J T Young, 'Isaac Newton's alchemical notes in the Royal Society' in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 25-35
P Quarrie 'The Scientific library of the earls of Macclesfield' in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 5-25
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Notes:
Dates of birth and death given according to the Julian Calendar.
Virtual International Authority File http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457
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Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo Title Date
M/162 Farthing coin of Isaac Newton 1793
IM/003305 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003288 Apple Tree 1995
M/180 Newton, Sir Isaac 1727
M/160 Newton, Sir Isaac
EL/N1/61 Paper, 'De Trigonometri Sphric Rectangul' by Isaac Newton nd
IM/003279 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003302 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003269 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003270 Newton, Sir Isaac 1996
IM/003300 Newton, Sir Isaac 1991
M/161 Halfpenny token of Isaac Newton 1793
IM/003301 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
MM/1/14 Letter from J Mill, Oxford, to Isaac Newton 21 February 1693
M/179 Newton, Sir Isaac 1726
IM/003303 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
MM/5/41 Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester, to Isaac Newton 13 February 1697
IM/003310 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003292 Newton, Sir Isaac 2001
M/158 Newton, Sir Isaac
IM/003282 Newton, Sir Isaac circa 1725
IM/003285 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003287 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003265 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
MM/16/107 "Zu Isaak Newtons 200 Todestage", by Albert Einstein
IM/003307 Newton, Sir Isaac 1993
IM/003299 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003293 Newton, Sir Isaac 2001
MC/6/195 Letter from Joseph Jopling, 6 Vassall Terrace, Campden Grove, Kensington, to the Secretary of the Royal Society 8 January 1862
MM/17/2 Letter from George Gabriel Stokes to HE Roscoe 17 October 1892
MM/5/43 Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester, to Isaac Newton 30 December 1697
MM/6/86 Letter from John Collins to John Wallis 14 February 1676
IM/003306 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003294 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
EL/N1/51 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge 29 February 1676
MM/5/40 Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester Mint, to Isaac Newton 28 November 1696
RBO/12/35 'Remarks upon the Observations made upon a Chronological Index of Sir Isaac Newton' nd
IM/005379 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
RBO/4/44 'A discourse Of Mr Isaac Newton containing his New Theory about Light and Colours, sent by him from Cambridge February 6 1672' 1672
IM/003281 Newton, Sir Isaac April 1928
MM/17/104 Letter from John H Knowles to Herbert Rix, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society 9 September 1895
MM/17/1 Letter from George Gabriel Stokes to HE Roscoe 17 October 1892
MM/17/106 Letter from RT Glazebrook to Herbert Rix, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society 24 October [1895]
MM/17/103 Letter from RT Glazebrook to Herbert Rix, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society 1 August [1895]
MM/17/105 Letter from John H Knowles to Herbert Rix, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society 9 October 1895
IM/003298 Newton, Sir Isaac 1942
DM/2/159 GF Tupper, 'Estimate of Facsimile & Printing Sir Isaac Newton's Letters in Lithograph' nd
MM/5/47 Letter from Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Paris, to the Royal Society 9 June 1714
DM/2/156 Note about some papers by Sir Isaac Newton in the collection of the Earl of Portsmouth 18th century
RBO/4/45 Robert Hooke's considerations of Isaac Newton's discourse of light and colour 1672
IM/003261 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
DM/5/47 Draft of a letter from Isaac Newton to the Board of Ordnance, giving the recommendations of the Visitors of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, as regards certain improvements needed there c.1710
DM/5/48 Draft of a letter from Isaac Newton to the Board of Ordnance, on the report of the Visitors of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich 24 August 1713
EL/N1/63 Observations of the sun and moon at the spring equinox by Isaac Newton nd
RBO/9/37 Copy of Isaac Newton's table showing the quantity and degrees of heat nd
DM/5/45 Draft of a petition from the Royal Society to Queen Anne, for leave to petition Parliament to insert a clause 'in the bill now depending...for impowering your Majesty to grant them a piece of land' in the Royal Mews, for the purpose of building a house for the Society 1700s
IM/003267 Newton, Sir Isaac September 2002
MM/5/42 Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester, to Isaac Newton 2 August 1697
IM/005411 Newton, Sir Isaac 1992
IM/003280 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/005374 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
S/0045 Maquette of Newton, Sir Isaac 1849
IM/005373 Newton, Sir Isaac 1990
IM/005375 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/005410 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003283 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003290 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
A/0218 Newton, Sir Isaac 2003
P/0093 Portrait of Newton, Sir Isaac
IM/003295 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003262 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/005326 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003313 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003266 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003297 Newton, Sir Isaac 1942
IM/003268 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003296 Newton, Sir Isaac 1942
IM/003276 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003275 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003308 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003304 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003309 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003284 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/005412 Newton, Sir Isaac 1991
MC/4/184 Letter from Henry Garling, 27 Bedford Row, to the Secretary of the Royal Society 25 October 1847
CMB/2/26 Statutes Committee 1878
MOB/095 Mahogany armchair late 18th century
MS/81 Original letters printed in 'Commercium Epistolicum Domini Johannis Collins et Aliorum' 1669-1677
NLB/7/574 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Harvey & Gore 17 March 1893
NLB/7/594 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Harvey & Gore, 1 Vigo Streeet, W. 20 March 1893
NLB/11/564 Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Mr J H Knowles, 15 Rush Hill Road, Lavender Hill, S.W. 24 July 1895
NLB/11/792 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr J H Knowles, 15 Rush Hill Road, Lavender Hill, S.W. 8 October 1895
NLB/11/795 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Fellow of the Royal Society 8 October 1895
NLB/11/794 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society 8 October 1895
NLB/11/813 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Evans, Treasurer, Royal Society 10 October 1895
NLB/11/917 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society 4 November 1895
MM/6/85 Letter from Emanuel Mendes da Costa to Earl of Morton 4 April 1766
NLB/54/757 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to M. le General de Schokalsky 12 September 1917
NLB/57/800 Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ronald Ross, FRS, KCB 9 February 1920
NLB/57/732 Copy letter from AH White, Assistant Librarian of the Royal Society; to R Sweeting Esq; 621-627 Chamber of [commerce? typed over] 30 January 1920
L&P/1/120/1 Paper, 'A true copy of a paper found, in the handwriting of Sir Isaac Newton, among the papers of the late Dr Halley containing a description of an Instrument for observing the distance form the Fixt Stars at Sea' 1742
MC/4/185 Letter from Henry Garling, 27 Bedford Row, to Charles Richard Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] 26 October 1847
CLP/21/13 Paper, 'Of [Isaac] Newton's Principia' by Edmond Halley 1687
S/0048 Sculpture bust of Newton, Sir Isaac 1718
MOB/011 Cast of Isaac Newton with hair lock 18th century
MOB/007 Fragments of wood from Woolsthorpe Manor late 17th century
MOB/008 Wooden rulers from Woolsthorpe Manor late 17th century
MOB/009 Death mask of Isaac Newton c.1727
MOB/005 Reflecting telescope by Isaac Newton 1671
AP/5/20/1 Unpublished manuscript, 'An essay on the cause of the phenomena offered by a soap-water bubble' by Thomas Lee 30 August 1786
IM/003277 Newton, Sir Isaac 1712
MM/5/49 Letter from Brooke Taylor, near Canterbury, to Isaac Newton 22 April 1716
IM/003286 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
M/163 Newton, Sir Isaac
IM/003271 Newton, Sir Isaac 1995
A/0187 Woolsthorpe Manor 1946
MM/17/39 Letter from Isaac Newton to JF Fauquier 27 July 1720
MM/17/14 Letter from CM Ingleby to the Secretary of the Royal Society 9 February 1880
MM/20/37 Letter from Thomas le Seur and Francois Jacquier to Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary, Royal Society 9 January 1741
RBO/4/39 'Isaaci Newtoni Matheseos in Acad. Cantab. professoris Inventum Novum quo Telescopia longa insigniter contrahuntur citra effecti fraudem' nd
IM/003289 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
DM/5/44 'Articles of Agreement for a building in Crane Court in Fleet Street for the Honorary Royal Society' 28 May 1711
A/0212 Newton's Reflecting Telescope 1672
DM/5/100 A list of benefactors to the Library, to the value of £5 or upwards at one time c.1737
IM/003278 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003260 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003312 Newton, Sir Isaac 2000
IM/003263 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003274 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003291 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/005328 Newton, Sir Isaac 1991
MM/6/5 Alchemical notes by Isaac Newton
NLB/11/575 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr J H Knowles, 15 Rush Hill Road, S.W. 25 July 1895
EL/N1/64 Copy of a letter, from Isaac Newton, Hans Sloane, Richard Mead, Edmond Halley, and Abraham Hill to John Flamsteed, dated at Crane Court 1712
NLB/15/341 Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr William James Russell, Fellow of the Royal Society 14 August 1897
EL/W2/48 Letter, from John Wallis to Isaac Newton, dated at Oxford 10 April 1695
M/159 Newton, Sir Isaac
MM/16/110 "Description of an instrument for observing the distance of the moon from the fixed stars at sea", by Isaac Newton 16 August 1699
IM/003272 Newton, Sir Isaac nd
IM/003273 Newton, Sir Isaac 1726
NLB/7/602 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Evans 21 March 1893
NLB/11/738 Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Knowles, 15 Rush Hill Road, Lavender Hill, S.W. 27 September 1895
EL/N1/47 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg 23 June 1673
NLB/57/819 Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr JWL [James Whitbread Lee] Glaisher, FRS 13 February 1920
CLP/18ii/6/1 Manuscript, 'An account of some experiments of light and colours formerly made by the President and mention'd in his Optics, repeated before the Royal Society' by John Theoph [Theophilus] Desaguliers 24 June 1714
IM/000503 Quartet engraving nd
MOB/010 Lock of Isaac Newton's hair early 18th century
MS/57 Astronomical tracts with observations by Tycho Brahe and others 1585-1596
S/0050 Lock of hair of Newton, Sir Isaac
S/0027 Maquette of 'Newton after Blake' 1995
MOB/006 Sundial by Isaac Newton 17th century
MS/69 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica 1685
MS/64 A commentary on Newton's 'Principia' 18th century
MC/1/6 Letter from Antide Mangin, 334 Rue des Mathurins, Paris, to the Royal Society 1 October 1800
MC/1/46 Letter from Francesco Colangelo, Naples, to the Royal Society 4 October 1815
MC/1/99 Letter from Walter Forman, 4 Pierrepoint Buildings, Bath, to the Royal Society 4 December 1823
CLP/2/16/1 Manuscript, 'An account of a catadioptrick telescope made after the invention of Sir Isaac Newton' by John Hadley February 1723
MC/1/192 Letter from Davies Gilbert, President of the Royal Society, 45 Bridge Street, to Sir Thomas Lawrence [?] 7 January 1830
MC/1/200 Letter from Peter Clare and John James Tayler, [Secretaries of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society], to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society 27 February 1830
MC/2 Volume 2 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society 1832-1838
MC/2/26 Letter from John [?] Herapath, 2 Upper Bedford Place, Kensington, to [Prince Augustus Frederick], President of the Royal Society 16 February 1832
MC/2/270 Letter from [Charles] Turnor, Doctor's Common, to the Royal Society 24 January 1838
PT/70/14/2 Diagram, flow of two branches of curve by [James Joseph Sylvester] [1864]
P/0094 Portrait of Newton, Sir Isaac 1725
S/0041 Maquette of Newton, Sir Isaac 1857
MC/1 Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society 1800-1831
CLP/11ii/16 Paper, 'Observations on last weeke's experiment to demonstrate the phlogiston or aether in mars and oil of vitriol by explosion, and how to condense it' by unknown author 1 February 1730
EL/OB/94 Extract of a letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge 26 April 1676
EL/N1/45 Extract of a letter, from Isaac Newton to John Collins 1672
EL/N1/65 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Louis d'Aumont 3 June 1714
EL/N1/56 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley 14 July 1686
EL/N1/49 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge 30 November 1675
EL/Q/7 Letter, from Monsieur du Quet to Isaac Newton, dated at Paris nd
EL/N1/44 Extract of a letter, from Isaac Newton to John Collins 1672
EL/O2/92 Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Isaac Newton, dated at London 16 July 1672
AP/1/20/1 Unpublished manuscript, 'Newtons allgemeine, und hiernach, bloß als einzelner Fall, bestätigte Keplerische, Bestimmung der fortschreitenden Bewegung der Himmelskörper, möglichst klar entwickelt, auf die Urelemente des höheren Kalküls zurückgeführt, und dem verborgenen subtilen Rechnungsgange nach enthüllt' by Count George de Bagory [early 19th century]
AP/1/20/6 Unpublished diagrams, geometric figures by [George de Bagory] [early 19th century]
AP/1/20/5 Unpublished diagrams, geometric figures by [George de Bagory] [early 19th century]
MC/4/281 Letter from Reverend [Charles John] Elliott, Winkfield Vicarage, Windsor, to the Secretary of the Royal Society 11 May 1849
AP/1/20/4 Unpublished diagrams, geometric figures by [George de Bagory] [early 19th century]
AP/1/20/2 Unpublished diagrams, geometric figures by [George de Bagory] [early 19th century]
S/0018 Sculpture bust of Newton, Sir Isaac
MC/4/337 Letter from [William Henry] Smyth, 3 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, to [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] 23 March 1850
AP/5/20/2 Unpublished letter, introduction to paper on colour theory from Tho [Thomas] Lee to the Royal Society 30 August 1786
MC/4 Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society 1844-1850
MC/5/82 Letter from Frederick Manning, London, to [Thomas Bell and Samuel Hunter Christie], the Secretaries of the Royal Society 3 February 1853
EL/L5/108 Letter, from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to Isaac Newton, dated at Hanover 17 March 1693
CLP/1/43 Paper, 'The report of what was contained in Mr de Moivres papers opend before the Society on 5th of May 1720' by unknown author 5 May 1720
CLP/1/30 Paper, on mathematical problems by Johannes [Jean] Bernoulli [1697]
AP/5/20 Unpublished letter and paper, 'An essay on the cause of the phenomena offered by a soap-water bubble' by Thomas Lee 30 August 1786
AP/6/16/2 Unpublished letter, regarding errors in philosophy from Michael Shipman to Alexander Hogg 17 January 1789
MC/5/315 Letter from Viscount Enfield, [George Byng], Wrotham Park, Barnet, to the Secretary of the Royal Society 22 November 1857
MC/5 Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society 1851-1858
EL/N1/57 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley 27 July 1686
EL/N1/60 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley, dated at Cambridge 1 March 1687
MC/6/41 Letter from Purnell B [Bransby] Purnell, County Chairman of Gloucestershire, Stancombe Park, Dursley, to the Council of the Royal Society, Burlington House 26 October 1859
MC/6/42 Letter from Purnell B [Bransby] Purnell, Stancombe Park, Gloucestershire, to [Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie], President of the Royal Society and to the Council, Burlington House 31 October 1859
EL/N1/59 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley, dated at Trinity College Cambridge 13 February 1686
AP/8/14 Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the new theory for explaining the coloured appearances of thin plates, lately published in the Transactions of this Society' by G [Gibbes] Walker Jordan 16 February 1811
EL/N1/39 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg 11 June 1672
MC/6/143 Letter from Joseph Jopling, 6 Vassall Terrace, Kensington, to C R [Charles Richard] Weld, Royal Society 23 May 1861
MC/6/187 Letter from Joseph Jopling, 6 Vassall Terrace, Campden Grove, Kensington, to the Secretary of the Royal Society 3 December 1861
AP/14/9/1 Unpublished manuscript, 'On some new optical phaenomena' from John Herapath to Davies Gilbert 15 June 1830
AP/15/1/3 Unpublished diagrams, light deflecting around obstacles by [John Barton] [1831]
MC/6/204 Copy letter from G Pett, Llandudno, North Wales, to [Joseph Jopling] 12 February 1862
MC/6/197 Letter from Carl Haag, 16 New Burlington Street, to Dr [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly 24 January 1862
MC/6/196 Letter from Joseph Jopling, 6 Vassall Terrace, Campden Grove, Kensington, to the Secretary of the Royal Society 11 January 1862
MC/6/192 Letter from Joseph Jopling, 6 Vassall Terrace, Campden Grove, Kensington, to the Secretary of the Royal Society 29 December 1861
MC/6/203 Letter from Joseph Jopling, 6 Vassall Terrace, Campden Grove, Kensington, to the Secretary of the Royal Society 13 February 1862
AP/16/4 Unpublished paper, 'Trisection of any angle by means of a peculiar curve' by Alfred Burton 1831
MC/6 Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society 1859-1863
AP/14/9 Unpublished letter, 'On some new optical phaenomena' from John Herapath to Davies Gilbert 15 June 1830
AP/13/26 Unpublished paper and letter, 'The cause of the effect called attraction' by J K Smythies [1827]
AP/13/26/1 Unpublished letter, regarding gravity from J K Smythies to unknown recipient 12 January 1827
AP/13/26/2 Unpublished manuscript, 'The cause of the effect called attraction' by J K Smythies [1827]
AP/14/9/3 Unpublished diagram, five sets of light rings by John Herapath 15 June 1830
AP/14/9/4 Unpublished diagram, overlapping light rings by John Herapath 15 June 1830
AP/14/9/5 Unpublished diagram, overlapping light rings by John Herapath 15 June 1830
AP/14/9/2 Unpublished diagram, light rings by John Herapath 15 June 1830
AP/15/1/7 Unpublished diagrams, incline of shadows by [John Barton] [1831]
AP/15/1/2 Unpublished diagrams, opaque bodies blocking sun's rays by [John Barton] [1831]
AP/15/1/4 Unpublished diagrams, measurement of light deflection by [John Barton] [1831]
AP/15/1/1 Unpublished manuscript, 'On the inflexion of light' by John Barton [1831]
AP/15/1/5 Unpublished diagrams, sunlight passing around card and light currents by [John Barton] [1831]
AP/15/1/6 Unpublished diagram, shadow experiments with cards by [John Barton] [1831]
EL/O2/64 Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Isaac Newton 2 January 1672
EL/N1/48 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg 13 November 1675
EL/N1/41 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge 30 July 1672
EL/N1/54 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge 22 August 1676
EL/N1/42 Continuation of an extract of a letter, from Isaac Newton to John Collins nd
AP/1/20 Unpublished paper, 'Newtons allgemeine, und hiernach, bloß als einzelner Fall, bestätigte Keplerische, Bestimmung der fortschreitenden Bewegung der Himmelskörper, möglichst klar entwickelt, auf die Urelemente des höheren Kalküls zurückgeführt, und dem verborgenen subtilen Rechnungsgange nach enthüllt' by Count George de Bagory [early 19th century]
CLP/16/15 Paper, 'Remarks upon the dissertation lately published at Paris, by the Reverend P Souciet, against Isaac Newton's chronology' by Edmond Halley 1727
CLP/2/16 Paper, 'An account of a catadioptrick telescope made after the invention of Sir Isaac Newton' by John Hadley February 1723
RBO/13/8 'Remarks upon the Dissections lately published at Paris by the Reverend P Souciet against Sir Isaac Newton' 1727
RBO/13/9 'Some further Remarks on P Souciet's Dissertation against Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology in a letter to Dr Jurin by Dr Halley' 1727
RBO/9/88 Letter of Gandolphe to Isaac Newton 1709
L&P/1/120/2 Plate, 'An instrument for observing the distance form the fixt stars at sea' by unknown artist 1742
CLP/18ii/6 Paper, 'An account of some experiments of light and colours formerly made by the President and mention'd in his Optics, repeated before the Royal Society' by John Theoph [Theophilus] Desaguliers 24 June 1714
CLP/2/16/2 Plate, four figures showing the catadioptric telescope and Saturn by I [John] Sturt [1723]
AP/18/2 Unpublished paper, 'On the connexion between refracted and diffracted light' by Paul Cooper January 1834
AP/18/2/1 Unpublished manuscript, 'On the connexion between refracted and diffracted light' by Paul Cooper January 1834
AP/18/3/1 Unpublished manuscript, 'On the number of primitive colorific rays into which white light may be separated' by Paul Cooper 21 January 1834
AP/21/8 Unpublished paper, 'An attempt to account for the discrepancy between the actual velocity of sound in air or vapour and that resulting from theory' by William Ritchie November 1836
PT/70/14/1 Manuscript, ['Algebraical researches, containing a disquisition on Newton’s rule for the discovery of imaginary roots, and an allied rule applicable to a particular class of equations, together with a complete invariantive determination of the character of the roots of the general equation of the fifth degree, &c'] by [James Joseph] Sylvester [1864]
CLP/3ii/5 Paper, 'Proposals about the machine to get good air for respiration and vegetation' by D [Denis] Papin [1709]
AP/28/18 Unpublished paper, 'On Sir Isaac Newton's method of finding the limits of the roots of equations' by Herbert Panmure Ribton 20 December 1845
CLP/7ii/4 Paper, 'A dissertation concerning the figure of the Earth' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers 1724
RBO/6/62 Definitions by Isaac Newton 10 December 1684
CLP/7ii/5 Paper, 'A dissertation concerning the figure of the Earth. Part the second' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers 1725
CLP/7ii/5/1 Manuscript, 'A dissertation concerning the figure of the Earth. Part the second' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers 1725
CLP/7ii/4/1 Manuscript, 'A dissertation concerning the figure of the Earth' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers 1724
MOB/108 Mounted wooden hemisphere late 17th century
MOB/109 Wooden prism late 17th century
CLP/1/10 Paper, on quadratic equations by Mr [George?] Campbel [Campbell] [1728]
AP/1/20/3 Unpublished diagrams, geometric figures by [George de Bagory] [early 19th century]
EL/H3/44 Letter, from Edmond Halley to Isaac Newton 22 May
EL/N1/36 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg 19 March 1671
EL/N1/43 Extract of a letter, from Isaac Newton to John Collins 1672
EL/N1/46 Letter, from Isaac Newton to John Collins, dated at Cambridge 9 April 1672
RBO/9/63 Isaac Newton's opinion of Denis Papin's proposals for making a water-raising engine 1707
EL/N1/37 Diagram, figure of reflecting telescope with explanations by Isaac Newton 1672
EL/N1/50 Note about reflecting telescope by Isaac Newton nd
CLP/16/14 Paper, 'Remarques upon the observations made upon a chronological index' by Isaac Newton 1725
EL/N1/35 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge 16 March 1671
L&P/7/157 Paper, 'Of Sir Isaac Newton's second law of motion and on an engine for turning ovals' by William Ludlam 1780
RBO/13/90 'Extract from a Letter of Doctor Eustachio Manfredi of Bologna to Sir Thomas Dereham relating to Rizzetti's Book against Sir Isaac Newton' 1728
CLP/7ii/9 Letter, regarding observations of the tides of the River Thames [London] using the marine surveyor from Henry de Saumarez to Isaac Newton and the Royal Society 8 December 1725
RBO/5/4 'Mr Isaac Newton's Observations Mentioned in his foregoing Hypothesis, and conducing to further Discoveries for completing his Theory of Light and Colors [colours]' 1676
RBO/7/83 'An Account of Some effects of 'horned poppy" by Issac Newton nd
L&P/1/120 Paper, 'A true copy of a paper found, in the handwriting of Sir Isaac Newton, among the papers of the late Dr Halley containing a description of an Instrument for observing the distance form the Fixt Stars at Sea' by Isaac Newton 1742
EL/N1/38 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge 13 April 1672
EL/N1/53 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge 18 August 1676
EL/N1/55 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley, dated at Cambridge 20 June 1686
EL/N1/58 Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley, dated at Trinity College Cambridge 18 October 1686
PT/70/14 Paper, ['Algebraical researches, containing a disquisition on Newton’s rule for the discovery of imaginary roots, and an allied rule applicable to a particular class of equations, together with a complete invariantive determination of the character of the roots of the general equation of the fifth degree, &c'] by [James Joseph] Sylvester [1864]
CLP/18ii/7/1 Manuscript, 'An account of some experiments made before the Royal Society concerning the properties of light and colours' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers 1714
CLP/18ii/7 Paper, 'An account of some experiments made before the Royal Society concerning the properties of light and colours' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers 1714
CLP/18ii/13 Paper, 'An account of an optical experiment made before the Royal Society on Thursday 6 and 13 December 1722' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers 1722
CLP/4i/39 Paper, 'An account of a hurricane in which the polarity of the needle was changed', communicated by Sir Isaac Newton 1683
AP/29/2 Unpublished paper, 'A comparison of the first and second editions of the "Commercium Epistolicum D Johannis Collins et aliorum de analysi promota' by A [Augustus] de Morgan 23 November 1846
AP/15/1 Unpublished paper, 'On the inflexion of light' by John Barton [1831]
P/0095 Portrait of Newton, Sir Isaac 1717
S/0047 Death mask of Newton, Sir Isaac 1727
P/0092 Portrait of Newton, Sir Isaac 1727
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