II. Notice concerning an Autograph Manuscript by Sir Isaac Newton, containing some Notes upon the Third Book of the Principia, and found among the Papers of Dr David Gregory, formerly Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford
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- 1 January 1834
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Vol. 12 (1) , 64-76
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800030519
Abstract
An opinion has been entertained by some of the modern French philosophers, and, among others, by the late celebrated Marquis de La Place, that it was only when far advanced in years that Sir Isaac Newton turned his attention to the study of Theology; and it has been lately assumed by M. Biot, in an account of Newton and his discoveries, contained in the “Biographie Universelle,” as a fact which can scarcely be doubted, that, at one period of his life, he was actually in a state of mental derangement.Keywords
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