Never at Rest by Richard S. Westfall

Author:Richard S. Westfall [Westfall, Richard S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780521231435
Publisher: CambridgeUP
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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1 Halley to Newton, 29 June 1686; Corres 2, 442.

2 Newton to Halley, 27 May and 20 June 1686; Corres 2, 433–4, 435.

3 Halley to Newton, 29 June 1686; Corres 2, 441–2.

4 Corres 2, 442.

5 Joseph Halle Schaffner Collection, University of Chicago Library, MS 1075–7.

6 Whiteside has made the point that corrections and differences in the surviving copies of what I accept as the early demonstration imply a lost original (Zentralblatt für Mathemati und ihre Grenzegebiete, 194 [1970], 2–3). It is possible that the copy in Newton’s hand dated from the fall of 1684 and was a product of the revision prompted by Halley’s visit.

7 Herivel, pp. 277–89; original Latin, pp. 257–74. See Stephen Peter Rigaud, Historical Essay on the First Publication of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia (Oxford, 1838); and W. W. Rouse Ball, An Essay on Newton’s ‘Principia’ (London, 1893).

8 Birch, The History of the Royal Society of London, 4 vols. (London, 1756–7), 4, 347.

9 On 27 December 1684, Flamsteed wrote to Newton that he would not be able to see De motu until Hooke and others had satisfied themselves. Newton replied in January that he was instructing Paget to send the tract to Flamsteed, and late in January, Flamsteed acknowledged that he had received it (Corres 2, 405, 412–13, 414).

10 DeMoivre Memorandum; Joseph Halle Schaffner Collection, University of Chicago Library, MS 1075–7.

11 Corres 2, 413.

12 Corres 2, 415.

13 In February, Newton told Aston that he would be in Lincolnshire for a month or six weeks (Corres 2, 415). The Exit and Redit Book indicates absences from 27 March to 11 April and 11 June to 20 June. The Steward’s Book showed a total absence of six weeks during academic year 1685.

14 William Whiston, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. William Whiston (London, 1749)p. 36.

15 His experiments in 1684 began in February and appear to have continued until about 23 May, a date at the end of the series (Add MS 3975, p. 149). On the following page, he entered experiments that began on 26 April 1686, with no intervening space for any in 1685.

16 Keynes MS 135.

17 Cambridge University Library (Baker MSS), Mm. 1. 53. J.E. Foster, ed., The Diary of Samuel Newton, Alderman of Cambridge (1662–1717) (Cambridge, 1890) p. 88. Fitzwilliam notebook.

18 Newton to Flamsteed, ca. 12 Jan. 1685; Corres 2, 413.

19 Corres 2, 407.

20 Corres 2, 413.

21 Corres 2, 407.

22 Corres 2, 408–9.

23 Corres 2, 413.

24 Corres 2, 415.

25 Corres 2, 419–20.

26 Newton to Halley, 14 July 1686; Corres 2, 445.

27 Herivel, p. 246. On Newton’s science of dynamics and its development, see I. Bernard Cohen, Introduction to Newton’s ‘Principia’ (Cambridge, 1971); Isaac Newton, The Creative Scientific Mind at Work (the Wiles Lectures for 1966, n.p., n.d.); “Galileo and Newton,” in Saggi su Galileo Galilei (Florence, 1972); “Newton’s Second Law and the Concept of Force in the Principia,” in Robert Palter, ed., The ‘Annus Mirabilis’ Of Sir Isaac Newton (Cambridge, Mass., 1970); “Newton’s Theory versus Kepler’s Theory and Galileo’s Theory,” in Y. Elkana, ed.

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