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Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley

Reference number: EL/N1/57

Date: 27 July 1686

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Concerning a letter from Newton to Huygens about 'vis centrifuga' and the motion of the planets which was sent before Hooke's work on the same topic

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EL/N1/57
Earliest possible date
27 July 1686
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2 pages
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Manuscript
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Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton, Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley, 27 July 1686, EL/N1/57, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n1_57/letter-from-isaac-newton-to-edmund-halley, accessed on 03 December 2024

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    Dates: 1613-1740

    The archival collection known as 'Early Letters' is composed of original manuscript letters sent to, or collected by, the Royal Society from English and foreign correspondents.

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