Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

The Life and Works of Isaac Newton

Eighteenth Century Accounts

• The Life of Sir Isaac Newton with an Account of his Works, by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (London, 1728)
• A Discourse concerning the Nature and Certainty of Sir Isaac Newton's Methods of Fluxions and of Prime and Ultimate Ratios, by Benjamin Robins (London, 1735)

See also material relevant to the Analyst controversy.

Nineteenth Century Accounts

• The chapter on Isaac Newton in Rouse Ball's A short account of the history of mathematics
• Rouse Ball's account of the controversy between Leibniz and Newton over the discovery of the calculus, from A short account of the history of mathematics

Autobiographical Material

• An Account of the Book entituled Commercium Epistolicum Collinii & aliorum, De Analysi promota; published by order of the Royal-Society, in relation to the Dispute between Mr. Leibnitz and Dr. Keill, about the Right of Invention of the Method of Fluxions, by some call'd the Differential Method.

Extracts from the Works of Isaac Newton

(The following excepts are by no means representative of the range of the mathematical work of Sir Isaac Newton.)

• Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Book Two, Lemma II.



• Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Book One, Section I.



• Introductio ad Quadraturam Curvarum (Introduction to the Quadrature of Curves)

Other relevant Websites

• Isaac Newton Resources (Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University)
• OLD URL was www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Newton.html Cambridge University Library: Papers of Sir Isaac Newton
• The Newton Project
• OLD URL was www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/nk/newton.htmNewton and the Moon, by Nicholas Kollerstrom (University College London)

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