Draft of part of the preface to the first edition of the Principia. Not quite as printed, in part fuller. Together with the printed prefatory poem by Edmund Halley, slightly amended by hand.
Type
Manuscript
Change log
Authors
Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727
Description
Much interlineated and corrected. There is a fair copy by an amanuensis at Add. 3963, f.183, which differs slightly from this.