The Correspondence of Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

doi:10.1017/9781108699945

This first volume is particularly rich in matters of concern to the historian of science. It shows the young Newton in the plenitude of his powers; he himself wrote of the period at Woolsthorpe, which ended before any surviving letters of real consequence were written, 'for in those days I was in the prime of my age for invention, and minded Mathematics and Philosophy more than at any time since'. The main scientific topics with which these letters deal are the reflecting telescope; the early mathematical work; and the fundamental work on the decomposition of white light by the prism.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-x

List of Plates
pp xi-xi

The Royal Society of London: Newton Letters Committee
pp xii-xii

Foreword
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp xv-xxiv

Preface
pp xxv-xxxiv

Acknowledgments
pp xxxv-xxxvi

Short Titles and Abbreviations for Published Works and Manuscripts
pp xxxvii-xxxviii

The Correspondence
pp xxxix-xl

1. Newton to a Friend, c. 1661
pp 1-2

2. Newton’s Mother to Newton, 6 May 1665
pp 2-3

3. Newton to a Friend, 23 February 1668/9
pp 3-9

4. Newton to Aston, 18 May 1669
pp 9-13

5. Barrow to Collins, 20 July 1669
pp 13-14

6. Barrow to Collins, 31 July 1669
pp 14-14

7. Barrow to Collins, 20 August 1669
pp 14-15

8. Collins to Gregory, 25 November 1669
pp 15-16

9. Newton to Collins, January 1669/70
pp 16-23

10. Newton to Collins, 6 February 1669/70
pp 23-26

11. Collins to Gregory, 12 February 1669/70
pp 26-26

12. Newton to Collins, 18 February 1669/70
pp 27-28

13. Collins to Gregory, 24 March 1669/70
pp 28-30

14. Newton to Collins, 11 July 1670
pp 30-32

15. Collins to Newton, 13 July 1670
pp 32-34

16. Newton to Collins, 16 July 1670
pp 34-36

17. Collins to Newton, 19 July 1670
pp 36-40

18. Gregory to Collins, 5 September 1670
pp 40-42

19. Newton to Collins, 27 September 1670
pp 42-44

20. Gregory to Collins, 23 November 1670
pp 45-49

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