College notebook / by Isaac Newton
Object Details
- author
- Newton, Isaac 1642-1727
- publisher
- Kronecker Wallis
- binder
- 9.Disseny
- Author
- Facsimile of: Cambridge University Library Manuscript Add.4000
- Subject
- Newton, Isaac 1642-1727 Knowledge and learning
- Cover title.
- Facsimile of MS Add.4000, from the Cambridge University Library Portsmouth Collection.
- "A Kronecker Wallis book"--Front free endpaper.
- "Image courtesy of Cambridge University Library. Printed and bound by 9.Disseny." --Front free endpaper.
- Limited edition of 1200 unnumbered copies.
- "A small note-book, written from both ends, containing early exercises - extraction of the square and cube root, elementary Geometry, etc. - followed by annotations of Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum. This is preceded by a note of Newton's fixing by an entry in his account-book the date of the annotations as being in the winter 1664-1665, at which time he says he found the method of infinite series. Also notes on music, chances etc." --From the Janus online catalog record for the original manuscript copy of Newton's College notebook.
- Sir Isaac Newton was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge University from June 1661 to August 1665, when he obtained his bachelor of arts degree.
- SCDIRB copy 39088020040234 is the gift of S. Diane Shaw.
- SCDIRB copy has the publisher's full leather binding with blind-lettered cover title.
- 2019
- Call number
- Z8623 .C65 2019
- Type
- Early works to 1800
- Sources
- Facsimiles (reproductions)
- Autographs (manuscripts))
- Notebooks
- Physical description
- 163 leaves ; 17 cm
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Geometry
- Mathematics
- Music
- Probabilities
- Record ID
- siris_sil_1107275
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
