Letter to Edmund Halley on corrections to the Principia

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/59, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Published online: June 2014

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I have sent you y^e sheet you want. The second book I made ready for you in Autumn, having wrote to you in Sommer that it should come out w^th y^e first & be ready against y^e time you might need it, & guessing by y^e rate of y^e presse in Sommer you might need it about November or December. But not hearing from you & being told (thô not truly) that upon new differences in y^e R. Society you had left your secretaries place: I desired my intimate friend M^r C. Montague to enquire of M^r Paget how things were & send me word. He writes that D^r Wallis has sent up some things about projectiles pretty like those of mine in y^e papers M^r Page{t} first shewed you, & y^t 'twas ordered I should be consulted whether I intend to print mine. I have inserted them into y^e beginning of y^e second book w^th divers others of y^t kind: w^ch therefore if you desire to see you may command y^e book when you ple{illeg}|a|se though otherwise I should chose to let it ly by me till you are ready for it. I think I have y^e solution of your Prob{lem} about y^e Suns Parallax, but through other occasions shall scar{ce} have time to think further on these things & besides I want something of observation. For if my notion be right, the Sun draws y^e Moon in y^e Quadratures, so that there needs an equation of about 4 or $4 \frac{1}{2}$ minutes to be subducted from her motion in y^e first Quarter & added in y^e last. I hope you received a letter w^th two Corollaries I sent you in Autum{illeg}|n|. I have eleven sheets already, that is to M. When you have seven more printed off, I desire you would send them. I thank you for putting forward y^e press again, being very sensible of y^e great trouble I give you amidst so much business of your own {&} y^e R. Societys. In this as well as in divers other \things/ you much ob{illeg} oblige

Yo^r affectionate Friend

& Humble Servant

Is. Newton.

Trin. Coll. Cambridge.
Feb. 1{3}{8}^th. 1686

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For his Honoured Friend
M^r Edmund Halley, to be left
w^th M^r Hunt at Gresham
College in

London.

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M^r. Newton's Letter
Feb. 13. 1686.
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