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Letter collection · 1687 · age 44

Correspondence of Gilbert Clerke and Isaac Newton on the Principia

by Isaac Newton

Kept from archive.org · 1 file · 11.0 MBCall number NEW LS1687.01

Provenance

Source
archive.org
Retrieved
1 October 2026
Source terms (summary)
Internet Archive item: library considers it out of copyright
Rights
Public domainNewton's own manuscript; author died 1727. Unpublished-work rules not assessed.Basis: author death year 1727, under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date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
Fingerprint
2d4dc5c75e9cf2bb576aff3f259f6a96d9914c885c5efdaf3ff3764200c8d20bsha256 of the file (64 characters). Any change to the file changes this code.
Cite as
Isaac Newton, Correspondence of Gilbert Clerke and Isaac Newton on the Principia (1687). Long Keeping, call number NEW LS1687.01. https://longkeeping.com/isaac-newton/correspondence-of-gilbert-clerke-and-isaac-newton-on-the-pri/
Unchanged since collected At the last check, on 2 October 2026, all 903 originals, this work's file 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).
  • #10An Internet Archive derivative made from the scan, not the master scan.

Original

Held in the archive: its images await the archive's likeness review.

See it at its source (another site)

Files

First pass, not a clearance.

FileFormatSizeSourcesha256Label
ia-ms-burndy11-clerke-newton-correspondence-1687.pdfmain PDF scan 11.0 MB archive.org 2d4dc5c75e9cf2bb576aff3f259f6a96d9914c885c5efdaf3ff3764200c8d20b Public domainNewton's own manuscript; author died 1727. Unpublished-work rules not assessed.Basis: author death year 1727, under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date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)