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Letter collection · 1756 · 29 yrs after death

Four Letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Doctor Bentley


by Isaac Newton

Kept from archive.org · 1 file · 28 KBCall number NEW LS1756.01

Provenance

Source
archive.org
Retrieved
1 October 2026
Source terms (summary)
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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
OCR text
Fingerprint
1598df36c729cfc123fdf5b03abbdb4b7e9b8a7ddb943cb3a81038f428efab32sha256 of the file (64 characters). Any change to the file changes this code.
Cite as
Isaac Newton, Four Letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Doctor Bentley (1756). Long Keeping, call number NEW LS1756.01. https://longkeeping.com/isaac-newton/four-letters-from-sir-isaac-newton-to-doctor-bentley/
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

  • #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

ia-four-letters-to-bentley-1756_djvu.txt

Files

First pass, not a clearance.

FileFormatSizeSourcesha256Label
ia-four-letters-to-bentley-1756_djvu.txtmain OCR text 28 KB archive.org 1598df36c729cfc123fdf5b03abbdb4b7e9b8a7ddb943cb3a81038f428efab32 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)