![]() 'Alchemy' is the of converting any base metal to gold. Isaac Newton is also very much interested in alchemy.In his young age of 17, Isaac Newton belonged to a poor family so his mother insisted him to go to their family farm after coming back from school and he used to follow his mom's order and he almost became a farmer but his uncle convinced his mother to allow him to join Cambridge's Trinity College.God governs all things and knows all that is or can be done'. ![]() Newton himself said that 'Gravity explains the motion of planet but it can not explain who set the planets in motion. Newton was a scientist but also he was also very religious.Father's name of Isaac Newton is also "Isaac Newton".Sir Isaac Newton’s Cambridge papers added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.Catalogue of the Macclesfield Collection.History of Isaac Newton's Papers (from Newton Project website).Overview of Newton Papers held at Cambridge University Library (from Manuscripts Department website).In 2000 Cambridge University Library acquired a very important collection of scientific manuscripts from the Earl of Macclesfield, which included a significant number of Isaac Newton's letters and other papers.Ī number of videos explaining aspects of Newton's work and manuscripts are available from the Newton Project's YouTube site, a selection of which are presented alongside our manuscripts. They were sold at auction at Sotheby's in London in 1936 and purchased by other libraries and individuals. The remainder of the Newton papers, many concerned with alchemy, theology and chronology, were returned to Lord Portsmouth. Based on this catalogue, the earl generously presented all the mathematical and scientific manuscripts to the University, and it is these that form the Library's 'Portsmouth collection' (MSS Add. In 1872 the fifth earl passed all the Newton manuscripts he had to the University of Cambridge, where they were assessed and a detailed catalogue made. Their son became the second earl and the manuscripts were passed down succeeding generations of the family. In 1740 the Conduitts' daughter, also Catherine, married John Wallop, who became Viscount Lymington when his father was created first Earl of Portsmouth. In 1699 Newton was appointed Master of the Mint, and in 1703 he was elected President of the Royal Society, a post he occupied until his death.Īfter his death, the manuscripts in Newton's possession passed to his niece Catherine and her husband John Conduitt. These, and some correspondence relating to the University, were assigned the classmarks Dd.4.18, Dd.9.46, Dd.9.67, Dd.9.68, and Mm.6.50. Under the regulations for this Chair, Newton was required to deposit copies of his lectures in the University Library. He came to the University as a student in 1661, graduating in 1665, and from 1669 to 1701 he held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics. Newton was closely associated with Cambridge. As well as University Library material, our collection includes two important items from The Royal Society's collections - a manuscript copy of the Principia and a collection of Newton's correspondence. They range from his early papers and College notebooks through to the ground-breaking Waste Book and his own annotated copy of the first edition of the Principia. These manuscripts along with those held at Trinity College Cambridge, King’s College Cambridge, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Royal Society and the National Library of Israel have been added to the Unesco Memory of the World Register. Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727).
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