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26.

Front Matter to the Opticks (1704)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Opticks: Or, A treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures (London: 1704).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00032

27.

Mr. Isaac Newton's Considerations upon part of a Letter of Monsieur De Bercé

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘Mr. Isaac Newton's Considerations upon part of a Letter of Monsieur De Bercé … concerning the Cata drioptricalCatadioptrical Telescope, pretended to be improv'd and refined by M. Cassegrain’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 83 (20 May 1672), pp. 4056-4059.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00010

28.

Liber Secundus, Pars. IV (1706)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Optice: Sive De Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus & Coloribus Lucis. Libri Tres. (London: 1706).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00069

29.

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Newton, dated 14 September 1673

Author: Henry Oldenburg

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 34r-35v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00398

30.

Letter to Henry Oldenburg, 19 March 1671

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/36, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00308

31.

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Newton from early April 1672

Author: Henry Oldenburg

Source: MS Add. 3976, f. 7r-7v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00389

32.

Draft Versions of 'The Queries'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3970.3, ff. 231r-301r, 359r, 477v-478r, 610r-612r, 618r-623r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00055

33.

The Second Book of Opticks. Part IV (1718)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. The Second Edition, with Additions (London: 1718).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00050

34.

Copy of an extract of a letter to John Collins, dated 10 December 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/45, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00315

35.

Letter from Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated 28 November 1676

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 38r-39v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00400

36.

Draft of the 'Discourse Concerning Light and Colors'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3970.3, ff. 501r-517r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00122

37.

The Second Book of Opticks. Part IV (1704)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Opticks: Or, A treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures (London: 1704).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00038

38.

Liber Secundus, Pars. II (1706)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Optice: Sive De Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus & Coloribus Lucis. Libri Tres. (London: 1706).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00067

39.

An Extract of a Letter lately written by an ingenious person from Paris [Christiaan Huygens]

Author: Christiaan Huygens

Source: ‘An Extract of a Letter lately written by an ingenious person from Paris [Christiaan Huygens]’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 96 (21 July 1673), pp. 6086-6087.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00016

40.

Response to Linus's second letter concerning Newton's new theory of light and colours, dated 13 November 1675

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/48, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00318

41.

A particular Answer of Mr. Isaak Newton to Mr. Linus his Letter

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘A particular Answer of Mr. Isaak Newton to Mr. Linus his Letter, printed in Numb. 121. p. 499’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 123 (25 March 1676), pp. 556-561.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00024

42.

'Quæstiones quædam Philosophiæ' ('Certain Philosophical Questions')

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3996, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: THEM00092

43.

Mr. Newtons Answer to the foregoing Letter [of Christiaan Huygens]

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘Mr. Newtons Answer to the foregoing Letter [of Christiaan Huygens]’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 96 (21 July 1673), pp. 6087-6092.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00017

44.

Lectiones Opticae

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 4002, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00306

45.

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Newton, dated 2 May 1672

Author: Henry Oldenburg

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 10r-11v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00391

46.

Copy of an extract from Newton to John Collins, dated 10 December 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/42-44, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00314

47.

Letter to to Henry Oldenburg, dated 30 July 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/41, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00313

48.

Christiaan Huygens' comments on Newton's telescope

Author: Christiaan Huygens

Source: ‘Christiaan Huygens' comments on Newton's telescope’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 81 (25 March 1672), pp. 4008-4009.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00052

49.

The Second Book of Opticks. Part III (1704)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Opticks: Or, A treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures (London: 1704).

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00037

50.

Newton's figure of his reflecting telescope with explanations

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/37, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00309

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