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Letter collection · 1754 · 27 yrs after death

Two Letters of Sir Isaac Newton to Mr. Le Clerc

by Isaac Newton

Kept from archive.org · 1 file · 145 KBCall number NEW LS1754.01

Provenance

Source
archive.org
Retrieved
1 October 2026
Source terms (summary)
Internet Archive item: Public Domain Mark
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
70dd354d035adf73c756d529d3459c986aad81a8dbc666402db25a503d0b88e1sha256 of the file (64 characters). Any change to the file changes this code.
Cite as
Isaac Newton, Two Letters of Sir Isaac Newton to Mr. Le Clerc (1754). Long Keeping, call number NEW LS1754.01. https://longkeeping.com/isaac-newton/two-letters-of-sir-isaac-newton-to-mr-le-clerc/
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-two-letters-to-le-clerc-1754_djvu.txt

Open original OCR text, 145 KBPublic domain

Files

First pass, not a clearance.

FileFormatSizeSourcesha256Label
ia-two-letters-to-le-clerc-1754_djvu.txtmain OCR text 145 KB archive.org 70dd354d035adf73c756d529d3459c986aad81a8dbc666402db25a503d0b88e1 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.Licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0 (another site). Attribution: Internet Archive (another site).From the Internet Archive (another site)