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Paper · 1742 · 15 yrs after death

A True Copy of a Paper found, in the Hand Writing of Sir Isaac Newton, among the Papers of the late Dr. Halley

by Isaac Newton

Kept from archive.org · 2 files · 533 KBCall number NEW P1742.01

Provenance

Source
archive.org
Retrieved
1 October 2026
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Rights
Public domainNewton's own text, as far as the record shows: its edition and notes name no translator or editor.Basis: author death year 1727, under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date rules, are not assessed.
Formats
PDF scan, OCR text
Fingerprint
c351a5774551862ade1d835fce51fdf03d3bbc011d4071513a3633ddf941e8d9sha256 of the file (64 characters). Any change to the file changes this code.
Cite as
Isaac Newton, A True Copy of a Paper found, in the Hand Writing of Sir Isaac Newton, among the Papers of the late Dr. Halley (1742). Long Keeping, call number NEW P1742.01. https://longkeeping.com/isaac-newton/a-true-copy-of-a-paper-found-in-the-hand-writing-of-sir-isaa/
Unchanged since collected At the last check, on 2 October 2026, all 903 originals, this work's 2 files among them, matched the fingerprints recorded when they were collected. Each copy is re-checked by hand once a year; there is no automatic alert yet.

Notes on this copy

  • #1The file carries images, and no check is recorded yet that none of them is a picture of the person (the collection keeps no likenesses).
  • #2Machine-read text (OCR), not proofread, with no page images in the file to check it against.
  • #10An Internet Archive derivative made from the scan, not the master scan.

Original

The main file is held, so this opens ia-philtrans-1742-paper-in-newtons-hand-halley-papers_djvu.txt, the first file that is served.

Open original OCR text, 4 KBPublic domain

Files

First pass, not a clearance.

FileFormatSizeSourcesha256Label
ia-philtrans-1742-paper-in-newtons-hand-halley-papers.pdfmain PDF scan 529 KB archive.org c351a5774551862ade1d835fce51fdf03d3bbc011d4071513a3633ddf941e8d9 Public domainNewton's own text, as far as the record shows: its edition and notes name no translator or editor.Basis: author death year 1727, under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date rules, are not assessed.Held in the archive: its images await the archive's likeness review. Its source (another site)
ia-philtrans-1742-paper-in-newtons-hand-halley-papers_djvu.txt OCR text 4 KB archive.org f9e97a71ee25a27d6b3eaa2cd237bc8fef85ceeb600ad2c826eb32ec135730a6 Public domainNewton's own text, as far as the record shows: its edition and notes name no translator or editor.Basis: author death year 1727, under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date rules, are not assessed.From the Internet Archive (another site)