The Life of Sir Isaac Newton

nsiderable scale that has yet appeared, I have experie

coveries, have been less perfectly preserved than those of his illustrious predecessors; and it is not creditable to his disciples that they have all

ers to Oldenburg, and other papers in Bishop Horsley's edition of his works; from Turnor's Collections for the History of the Town and Soke

respecting the Life of Newton, yet I have been so fortun

an unexpected and a painful importance. These letters, when combined with those which passed between Newton and Locke, and with a curious extract from the manuscript diary of Mr. Abraham Pryme, kindly furnished to me by his collateral descendant Professor Pryme of Cambrid

arne in the Bodleian Library, and from the original correspondence between Newton and Flamstead, which the president of Corpus Christi College had for this purpose committed to his care; and Dr. J. C. Gregory, of Edinburgh, the descendant of the illustrious inventor of

s and facts, but especially to Sir William Hamilton, Bart., whose liberalit

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1st, 1831.