Diagram
Date
27 February 1700
Creator
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
f15v
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 293mm
width (page): 192mm
width (page): 192mm
Subject
Description
A diagram in Isaac Newton's autograph paper on 'A theory of the moon', dated 27 February 1699/1700. This is among the papers of David Gregory, who was in close contact with Newton.
Transcription
Number 121 in a square, with the number 2 in a circle underneath it [David Gregory's numbering of his papers]
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
MS 247 is part of the papers of David Gregory and James Gregorie. It includes Isaac Newton’s autograph draft of what is known as the ‘classical scholia’ (1693-94) to the third book of the Principia, which was never printed but was shared with Gregory, who drew on it for his preface to his own Elementa astronomiae physicae et geometricae (London, 1702).
See Paolo Casini, ‘Newton: The Classical Scholia’, History of Science, 22 (1984), 1-58.
See Paolo Casini, ‘Newton: The Classical Scholia’, History of Science, 22 (1984), 1-58.
Related fellows
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
David Gregory (1659 - 1708, British) , Astronomer, Astronomer
David Gregory (1659 - 1708, British) , Astronomer, Astronomer
Associated place