Author:Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton
(1642–1727)

Isaac Newton

Works

• Of Natures Obvious Laws & Processes in Vegetation (unpublished, c. 1671–75)
• De Motu Corporum in Gyrum (1684)
• Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687, 1713, 1726)
  • The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, (1729, 1803, 1846)
• s:la:Arithmetica Universalis (1707) translated to English as Universal Arithmetick (1720) c.f. w:Arithmetica Universalis
• Lectiones Opticae (1729)
  • Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
• Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John
• "New Theory About Light and Colour" in Philosophical Transactions, Vol. VI, No. 80 (1671)
• The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series (1736) (transcription project)
• Rules for Interpreting the Words & Language in Scripture (MS)
• An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture
• The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended
• General Scholium (1713 as an appendix to the Principia, 2nd ed., and 1726 as an appendix to the 3rd ed.)

Works about Newton

• Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's life by William Stukeley, 1752
• "Newton, Isaac," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Newton, Sir Isaac," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Newton, Sir Isaac," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Newton, Sir Isaac," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)