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Some Thoughts on the Newtonian System of Philophy [sic]: notebook

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Description: The text of this notebook contains notes regarding Newton's philosophies. The chapters are: Upon Attraction; Of the Prime Mover; Of the orbits of the Planets; Of Comets & their orbits; and A Review of & further discussions upon this System. The author may well be William Whiston, Newton's friend and successor. Included with the manuscript is a letter by B. F. Atkinson, of University Library, Cambridge, to the Curator at the Babson Institute stating that the manuscript is not in the hand of Henry Pemberton (1950, June 1). In modern binding.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [before 1752]
Call number: mssHM 76720
Provenance: On long term-loan from Babson College's Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, November 2006.
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Notebook on Newton and physics

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This volume contains handwritten notes about Isaac Newton's propositions including force and energy, spirals, mechanics and other related topics. The author, who may be R. Johnson, often includes mathematical equations and hand-drawn illustrations. There is an inscription in the front cover "R. Johnson Caius Coll Cambridge." The date of the manuscript is unknown but the paper has a 1805 watermark.

mssHM 76719

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Richard Bentley notebook

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It is conjecture that the author of this notebook is Richard Bentley ("R. Bentley" appears on the verso of the second flyleaf). The volume includes several essays including "Sanderson's Hydrostaticks," "De Microscopiis," "De Telescopiis," and "Demonstrations of the 6th Axiom in Dr. Isaak Newton's Opticks." There are also 8 pages of notes regarding mathematics.

mssHM 72871

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Isaac Newton et ses travaux: copy of book chapter

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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

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Wilbur Fisk Sanders manuscripts

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HM 80811. This manuscript (8 pages) is about General Henry Atkinson (1782-1842) and his expedition to the Yellowstone River in 1825. General Atkinson and his fellow commissioner left Fort Atkinson on May 16, 1825, and ascended the Missouri river, negotiating treaties of friendship with tribes of the upper Missouri, including several bands of the Sioux tribe. Sanders also briefly mentions the Arikara people, transcontinental railroad, and fur merchants in St. Louis. This manuscript appears to be incomplete.

mssHM 80811-80816

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Babson College's Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton: Manuscripts

Manuscripts

Most of the manuscripts in this collection came from Sotheby's 1936 Portsmouth sale of Newton's papers. They include correspondence, research notes, and documents, over 30 of which are in Newton's hand. The collection demonstrates the wide range of Newton's activities: his extensive studies of alchemy and theology, his work for the Royal Mint and the Royal Society, as well as his personal records. Highlights include: "A Treatise or Remarks on Solomon's Temple," with commentary and six sketches of plans and architectural details drawn by Newton, "Praxis," considered one of his most important alchemical manuscripts, and an illustrated alchemical text picturing the Philosopher's Stone. Another notable manuscript is "Lib. Chem," Newton's inventory of over 100 alchemical books in his personal library, with shelf marks. The collection also contains correspondence and documents written by Newton's contemporaries. Of particular note is a letter from Gottfried Leibniz to Nicolas Bernoulli written in June 1713, in which Leibniz entreats Bernoulli to help justify his claim to priority over Newton in the discovery of the calculus.The collection maintains the arrangement in which it was received from The Burndy Library at The Dibner Institute for the History of Science. Items are arranged in the following order: Boxes 1–4: Manuscripts, arranged sequentially according to the Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton catalog numbers. Boxes 5-7: Oversize Manuscripts, arranged sequentially according to the Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton catalog numbers. Box 8: A Treatise or Remarks on Solomon's Temple.

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Physik: notebook

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This notebook, which was written in German by an unknown German student in the winter of 1850-1851, contains notes regarding physics. The manuscript includes several drawings of apparatus.

mssHM 72873

Some Thoughts on the Newtonian System of Philophy [sic]: notebook

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