Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley, dated at Trinity College Cambridge
Reference number: EL/N1/59
Date: 13 February 1686
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Corrections on 'Principia'; concerning Wallis's work on projectiles; concerning Newton's solution of Halley's problem about the sun's parallax
- Reference number
- EL/N1/59
- Earliest possible date
- 13 February 1686
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- 1 page
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- Manuscript
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Isaac Newton, Letter, from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley, dated at Trinity College Cambridge, 13 February 1686, EL/N1/59, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n1_59/letter-from-isaac-newton-to-edmund-halley-dated-at-trinity-college-cambridge, accessed on 03 December 2024
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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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