Sir Isaac Newton’s Notebooks and Papers

Written by Jack Hassard

On December 14, 2011

Trinity College Notebook by Isaac Newton

At Cambridge University you can access original copies of Sir Isaac Newton’s works including his college notebook (1664 – 1665), Early Papers, Notebook on Hydrostatics, Optics, Sound and Heat (1672 – 1706), his own copy of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687).

Although not all of Newton’s papers are housed at Cambridge University, the collection there is important.  Newton was a student at Cambridge from 1661 – 1665, and held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics from 1669 – 1701.

Here are images and links to some of his notebooks, papers and books.

Early Papers, Isaac Newton

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton

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