Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)

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Name: Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)
Nationality: English

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Assets (26 in total)

Experiment using light and prism (pen & ink on paper)

$Ms. New Coll 361/2 fol.45v Drawing of the so-called crucial experiment that shows light from the sun being refracted through one prism and then being refracted through another prism (pen & ink on paper) (detail of 191592)$

Facsimile of the solution to the problem of the Brachystochrone, or curve of quickest descent (litho)

Ms 1-1936 f.7r Page from a notebook containing Newton's thoughts on optics and his household accounts, c.1665-68 (ink on paper)

'The Hunting of the Green Lyon', recto, detail, c.1700 (pen & ink on paper)

Alchemical writers listed by nationality, c.1700 (pen & ink on paper)

Ms 1-1936 f.6v Page from a notebook, c.1665-68 (ink on paper)

Ms 1-1936 f.3r Page from a notebook, c.1665-68 (ink on paper)

Letter written by Isaac Newton, 28 November 1679 (pen & ink on paper)

Letter written by Isaac Newton, 28 November 1679 (pen & ink on paper)

'The Hunting of the Green Lyon', recto, c.1700 (pen & ink on paper)

Illustrated page from an Optics Traite of the English mathematician, physicist and astronomer Isaac Newton (1642-1727).

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