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Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Quastiones quadam Philosophia (Certain Philosophical Questions).
1664
Newton's College Notebook
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
De analysi per aquationes numero terminorum infinitas (On Analysis by Infinite Series)
1669
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Theory about Light and Colors
Paper in: Philosophical Transactions (30 Jan./9 Feb.), Journal of the Royal Society
1672
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Philosophia naturalis principia mathematica (The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy)
1686 (First Edition - Latin)
The Principia is Newton's major work and concerns books on mechanics, fluids and gravity. First published some 20 years after the work was carried out, the text revised in subsequent editions.
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Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Opticks
1704
Published in English
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Optice
1706
Latin translation of 'Opticks'
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Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Universal Arithmetick
1708
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Commercium epistolicum ... de analysi promota (Correspondence ... Relating to the Progress of Analysis
1713
A report on Calculus written in 1712
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Philosophia naturalis principia mathematica (The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy)
1713 (Second Edition - Latin)
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Opticks
1718
Second English edition
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Optice
1719
Second Latin edition
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Opticks
1721
Third English edition
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Philosophia naturalis principia mathematica (The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy)
1726
Third Latin Edition
Woolsthorpe Manor copy donated to the Manor by Lord Adrian, President of the Royal Society 1950-55, Master of Trinity College Cambridge 1951-56.
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Philosophia naturalis principia mathematica (The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy)
1726
Third Latin Edition
Grantham Museum, Lincolnshire copy from the Babson Collection
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
De methodis serierum et fluxionum (On the Method of Series and Fluxions)
1736
Originally written in 1671 but not published until 1736
J. C. Adams, G,. G. Stokes, G. Living & H. R. Luard.
Catalogue of the Portsmouth Collection of Books and Papers written by or belonging to Sir Isaac Newton
1888
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Letter to Dr William Briggs on the theory of vision
Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire
Facsimile letter overlaid onto an engraving of Woolsthorpe Manor and the interior of Newton's house in St Martin's Street in London.
For information relating the numerous manuscripts and notebooks written by Sir Isaac Newton on the subjects of theology and alchemy, as well as papers relating to administrative matters, it is recommended that you refer to the excellent work compiled during the course of the Newton Project.