Newton’s Optical Correspondence

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1.

Draft of the 'Discourse Concerning Light and Colors'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3970.3, ff. 501r-517r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00122

2.

Letter to Henry Oldenburg, 16 March 1671

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/35, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00307

3.

A Latin Letter … by Ignatius Gaston Pardies … containing some Animadversions upon Mr. Isaac Newton … his Theory of Light

Author: Ignace Gaston Pardies

Source: ‘A Latin Letter … by Ignatius Gaston Pardies … containing some Animadversions upon Mr. Isaac Newton … his Theory of Light’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 84 (17 June 1672), pp. 4087-4090.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00012

4.

Letter from Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated 21 May 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 14r-15v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00392

5.

Christiaan Huygens' comments on Newton's telescope

Author: Christiaan Huygens

Source: ‘Christiaan Huygens' comments on Newton's telescope’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 81 (25 March 1672), pp. 4008-4009.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00052

6.

An Instrument for observing the Moon's Distance from the Fixt Stars at Sea

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘An Instrument for observing the Moon's Distance from the Fixt Stars at Sea’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 465 (1742), pp. 155-156.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00027

7.

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Newton, dated 18 January 1672

Author: Henry Oldenburg

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 1r-2v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00388

8.

A Letter from Liege concerning Mr Newton's Experiment of the colour'd Spectrum

Author: Anthony Lucas

Source: ‘A Letter from Liege’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 128 (25 September 1676), pp. 692-698.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00025

9.

Mr. Newtons Answer to the foregoing Letter [of Christiaan Huygens]

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘Mr. Newtons Answer to the foregoing Letter [of Christiaan Huygens]’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 96 (21 July 1673), pp. 6087-6092.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00017

10.

An Answer to this Letter [of Francis Linus], written 5 December 1674

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘An Answer to this Letter [of Francis Linus]’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 110 (25 January 1674/5), pp. 219.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00054

11.

Letter from Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated 28 November 1676

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 38r-39v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00400

12.

Letter to Henry Oldenburg, dated 11 June 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/39, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00311

13.

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Newton, dated 2 July 1672

Author: Henry Oldenburg

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 16r-17v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00393

14.

Draft of the 'Hypothesis Concerning Light and Colors'

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3970.3, ff. 475r-482v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00121

15.

A Serie's of Quere's propounded by Mr. Isaac Newton … positively concluding his new Theory of Light and Colours

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘A Serie's of Quere's propounded by Mr. Isaac Newton, to be determin'd by Experiments, positively and directly concluding his new Theory of Light and Colours; and here recommended to the Industry of the Lovers of Experimental Philosophy’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 85 (15 July 1672), pp. 5004-5007.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00014

16.

Mr Isaac Newtons Answer to some Considerations [of Robert Hooke] upon his doctrine of Light and Colors

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘Mr Isaac Newtons Answer to some Considerations [of Robert Hooke] upon his doctrine of Light and Colors’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 88 (18 November 1672), pp. 5084-5103.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00028

17.

An Accompt of a New Catadioptrical Telescope invented by Mr. Newton

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘An Accompt of a New Catadioptrical Telescope invented by Mr. Newton’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 81 (25 March 1672), pp. 4004-4007.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00007

18.

Copy of an extract of a letter to John Collins, dated 10 December 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/45, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00315

19.

Mr. Isaac Newton's Considerations on the former Reply [of Francis Linus]

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘ Mr. Isaac Newton's Considerations on the former Reply [of Francis Linus]’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 121 (24 January 1675/6), pp. 501-502.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00022

20.

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Newton, dated 4 June 1673

Author: Henry Oldenburg

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 30r-31v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00396

21.

An Extract of a Letter lately written by an ingenious person from Paris [Christiaan Huygens]

Author: Christiaan Huygens

Source: ‘An Extract of a Letter lately written by an ingenious person from Paris [Christiaan Huygens]’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 96 (21 July 1673), pp. 6086-6087.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00016

22.

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Newton from early April 1672

Author: Henry Oldenburg

Source: MS Add. 3976, f. 7r-7v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00389

23.

Letter to to Henry Oldenburg for Ignatius-Gaston Pardies, dated 10 June 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/40, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00312

24.

Mr. Newton's Letter … containing some more suggestions about his New Telescope

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘Mr. Newton's Letter … containing some more suggestions about his New Telescope, and a Table of Apertures and Charges for the several Lengths of that Instrument’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 82 (22 April 1672), pp. 4032-4034.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00008

25.

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Newton, dated 24 September 1672

Author: Henry Oldenburg

Source: MS Add. 3976, ff. 28r-29v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00395

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