Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)

Creator details

Name
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)
Nationality
English

Assets (29 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)
Newton's solution to the Brachistochrone problem
Newton's solution to the Brachistochrone problem
Two pages of revisions to the Principia Mathematica, 1694 (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)
Autograph: Sir Isaac Newton, 1682.
Ms 1-1936 f.6v Page from a notebook, c.1665-68 (ink on paper)
Two pages of revisions to the Principia Mathematica, 1694 (ink on paper)

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