{"id":1592,"date":"2011-12-13T17:35:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T12:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2011-12-13T17:35:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T12:05:30","slug":"sir-isaac-newtons-scanned-notes-are-published-online-by-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/sir-isaac-newtons-scanned-notes-are-published-online-by-cambridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Isaac Newton&#8217;s scanned notes are published online by Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following in the footsteps of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/royal-society-journal-archive-made-permanently-free-to-access\/\">The Royal Society<\/a>, Cambridge University has digitized and made available online; the notebooks in which Sir Isaac Newton worked out his theories that are the basis of most of the classical science.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Included in the collection are Newton&#8217;s own copy of his 1687 masterwork, Philosophi\u00c3\u00a6 naturalis principia mathematica, in which he described with mathematical rigor his laws of motion and gravitation. The digitized version also includes Newton&#8217;s own edits and marginalia, plus many pages of handwritten notes.<br \/>\nPhilosophi\u00c3\u00a6 naturalis principia mathematica handwritten notes<\/p>\n<p>Also included are some early papers; a notebook Newton inherited from his stepfather known as the Waste Book, in which he wrote down some of his work on developing calculus; a pair of college notebooks; and a raft of papers on Hydrostatics, Optics, Sound and Heat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like people are finally realizing that sharing information is good. Looking forward to seeing more such items being shared. Way to go Cambridge!<\/p>\n<p>You can browse the archive at the <a href='http:\/\/cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk\/collections\/newton'>Cambridge Digital Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-cambridgeshire-16141723'>BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following in the footsteps of The Royal Society, Cambridge University has digitized and made available online; the notebooks in which Sir Isaac Newton worked out his theories that are the basis of most of the classical science. Included in the collection are Newton&#8217;s own copy of his 1687 masterwork, Philosophi\u00c3\u00a6 naturalis principia mathematica, in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-sites","category-newsarticles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}