Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley
Reference number: EL/N1/56
Date: 14 July 1686

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Concerning woodcuts for work ('Principia') with instructions (figure in text); concerning work on ellipses; concerning the descent of falling bodies
- Reference number
- EL/N1/56
- Earliest possible date
- 14 July 1686
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Manuscript
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Isaac Newton, Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley, 14 July 1686, EL/N1/56, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n1_56/letter-from-isaac-newton-to-edmund-halley, accessed on 10 February 2025
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL -
Letters from correspondents in natural philosophy to the Royal Society and its Fellows: 'Early Letters N1'
1663-1726 Reference number: EL/N1
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Edmond Halley
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Isaac Newton
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Dates: 1613-1740
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