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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Image not available
Manuscripts
This manuscript is a handwritten transcription, in French, of the Chapter "Newton et ses Travaux" from Bertrand's book Les fondateurs de l'astronomie moderne: Copernic, Tycho Brahé, Kepler, Galilée, Newton, par Joseph Bertrand. it was a gift from Francisco José Mariano Duarte, a Venezuelan mathematician and scientist., to the Babson Institute in 1956. Duarte may well be the author of the manuscript. It is bound in leather and the cover is stamped "Babson Institute" with "Newton" on the spine.
mssHM 76717