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Unpublished scientific papers of Isaac Newton; a selection from the Portsmouth collection in the University Library, Cambridge. Chosen, edited, and translated by A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall.

By: Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.
Contributor(s): Hall, A. Rupert (Alfred Rupert), 1920-2009 [ed. and tr.] | Hall, Marie Boas, 1919- [ed. and tr.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1962Description: xx, [1], 415 p. 5 plates (incl. port.) diagrs. 24 cm.Subject(s): Science
Contents:
Mathematics. To resolve problems by motion -- Calculations of centripetal forces -- Mechanics. De gravitatione et aequipondio fluidorum -- The lawes of motion -- The elements of mechanicks -- Gravia in trochoide descendentia -- Theory of matter. De aere et aethere -- Manuscripts related to the Principia. Early drafts of propositions in mechanics -- On motion in ellipses -- Partial draft of the preface -- Fragment on the law of inertia -- Draft addition to book III, proposition VI, corollaries 4 and 5 -- Atmosphaera solis -- Conclusion -- Scholium generale -- Education. Of educating youth in the universities --Cosmography -- Phaenomena -- Astronomia -- Astronomy, geography, navigation, &c. -- Notes. Annotations and comments upon Hooke's Micrographia.
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Bibliography: p. xvii. "Bibliography of works relating to Newton's manuscripts": p. xix-[xxi]

Mathematics. To resolve problems by motion -- Calculations of centripetal forces -- Mechanics. De gravitatione et aequipondio fluidorum -- The lawes of motion -- The elements of mechanicks -- Gravia in trochoide descendentia -- Theory of matter. De aere et aethere -- Manuscripts related to the Principia. Early drafts of propositions in mechanics -- On motion in ellipses -- Partial draft of the preface -- Fragment on the law of inertia -- Draft addition to book III, proposition VI, corollaries 4 and 5 -- Atmosphaera solis -- Conclusion -- Scholium generale -- Education. Of educating youth in the universities --Cosmography -- Phaenomena -- Astronomia -- Astronomy, geography, navigation, &c. -- Notes. Annotations and comments upon Hooke's Micrographia.

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