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Catalogue Record: THEM00093

'De Gravitatione et æquipondio fluidorum'

Author: Isaac Newton

Shelfmark: Additional Ms. 4003

Location: Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

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On the front cover in Thomas Pellet's hand: 'Sep 25 1727/ Not fit to be printed/ Tho Pellet'.
Ostensibly a dissertation on hydrostatics, more properly an attack on the supposedly atheistic philosophy of Descartes. Probably associated with the Principia.

Transcription and English translation in A.R. and M.B. Hall, Unpublished Scientific Papers, 90-156.

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