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Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727

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• The Minute Mathematician (1735), by James Jurin (PDF and other formats with commentary in Ireland)
• Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life (transcript of the original manuscript, 1752), by William Stukeley (HTML in the UK)
• A Discourse Concerning the Nature and Certainty of Sir Isaac Newton's Methods of Fluxions, and of Prime and Ultimate Ratios (1735), by Benjamin Robins (at maths.tcd.ie)
• Reasons for Not Replying to Mr. Walton's Full Answer (based on the Dublin edition of 1735), by George Berkeley, ed. by David R. Wilkins (multiple formats in Ireland)
• Geometry No Friend to Infidelity, by James Jurin (in Ireland)
• A Vindication of Sir Isaac Newton's Principles of Fluxions, Against the Objections Contained in the Analyst (1735; with other pamphlets), by Jacob Walton (PDF and other formats in Ireland)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics, by George Berkeley (in Ireland)
• A new practical treatise on the three primitive colours, assumed as a perfect system of rudimental information : simplifying, their universal powers, in regular order of graduation, into colourless darkness when equilaterally concentrated : their variations from one colour to another, by their circular communion : their expansion by the power of light, and their effects under the united influence of light and shade : with some practical rules for reflections, and Sir Isaac Newton's distribution of the colours in the rainbow (London : Printed for the author, and sold by John Booth, 1826), by Charles Hayter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton explained in six dialogues, on light and colours, between a lady and the author /, by Francesco Algarotti, Jonathan Morris, Hannah Maria Margaret Morris, Robert Urie, Francesco Translation of: Algarotti, and Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. NcD (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophiae mathematicae Newtonianae illustratae : tomi duo ... / (Londini : T. Meighan, and J. Batley, 1730), by George Peter Domcke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical stories for children : Benjamin West, Sir Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Cromwell, Benjamin Franklin, Queen Christina / (Boston : Tappan and Dennet, 1842), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A commentary on Newton's Principia : with a supplementary volume : designed for the use of students at the universities / (London : T. T. & J. Tegg, 1833), by J. M. F. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new elucidation of colours, original, prismatic, and material : showing their concordance in three primitives, yellow, red, and blue, and the means of producing, measuring, and mixing them : with some observations on the accuracy of Sir Isaac Newton / (London : Printed by Richard Taylor and Co., 1809), by James Sowerby (page images at HathiTrust)
• G.J. 's Gravesande Philosophiae Newtonianae institutiones in usus academicos. (Vindobonae : Typis Joannis Thomae Trattner ..., 1760), by Willem Jacob 's Gravesande (page images at HathiTrust)
• An examination of Mr. Warburton's account of the conduct of the antient legislators : of the double doctrine of the old philosophers, of the theocracy of the Jews, and of Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology / (London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton ..., M.DCC.XLIV [1744]), by Arthur Ashley Sykes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuch, die Naturphilosophischen Ansichten Newtons in ihrer Beziehung zu denem seiner vorgänger Darzulegen. (Sorau : [s.n.], 1869), by Curt Struve (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abhandlung über das Verhältnis Lockes zu Newton [microform]. ([Berlin, R. Lantzsch, 1915]), by Paul Lind (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kant und Newton [microform], (Tübingen, H. Laupp, 1876), by Konrad Dieterich (page images at HathiTrust)
• La philosophie de Newton [microform] ... (Paris, Alcan, 1908), by Léon Bloch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Schwere, ihr Wesen und Gesetz; Isaak Newton's Irrthum; das Wesen des Stoffs und das Gesetz der Natur, begründung der wissenschaftlichen Metaphysik. (Zürich, 1897), by Wm Danmar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Newton; poema. (Lisboa : Impr. Regia, 1815), by José Agostinho de Macedo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mélanges scientifiques et littéraires (Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1858), by Jean-Baptiste Biot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical stories. (Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, c1883), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Newtonianisme pour les dames, ou Entretiens sur la lumière, sur les couleurs, et sur l'attraction; (Amsterdam, aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1741), by Francesco Algarotti and Louis-Adrien Duperron de Castera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newton und die mechanische Naturwissenschaft : zu Newton's Gedächtniss im zweiten Säcularjahre seiner Geburt / (Dresden : Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, 1843), by Karl Snell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Farbenlehre / (Tübingen : In der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1810), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, contrib. by J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelle chroagénésie, ou, Réfutation du Traité d'optique de Newton / (Paris : Leblanc, 1819-), by H.-S. Leprince (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Della legge fondamentale di foronomia : ossia d'una nuova teoria sulla causa universale delle forze contro la dottrina di Newton sull'attrazione della terra e dei corpi celesti / (Venezia : G. Antonelli, 1846), by Adolfo di Bérenger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Isaac Newton and England's prohibitive tariff upon silver money : an open letter to Prof. W. Stanley Jevons, L.L.D. (Edinb.), M.A. (Lond.), F.R.S., Professor of Political Economy in University College, London, etc., etc. / (Cincinnati : R. Clarke & Co., 1881), by S. Dana Horton and William Stanley Jevons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes : including letters of other eminent men / (London : J. W. Parker, 1850), by Isaac Newton, J. Edleston, and Roger Cotes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical essay on the first publication of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia. (Oxford, The University Press, 1838), by Stephen Peter Rigaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries, in four books. (London, Printed for J. Nourse [etc.], 1775), by Colin MacLaurin, ed. by Patrick Murdoch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Sir Isaac Newton, (New-York, J.&J. Harper, 1833), by David Brewster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il newtonianismo per le dame, ovvero Dialoghi sopra la luce, i colori, e l'attrazione ... (In Napoli, A spese di Giambatista Pasquale, 1739), by Francesco Algarotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Isaaci Newtoni Enumeratio linearum tertii ordinis; sequitur illustratio ejusdem tractatus (Parisiis, impensis J.B.M. Duprat, 1797), by James Stirling (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries, in four books. (London, Printed for A. Millar, 1750), by Colin MacLaurin, ed. by Patrick Murdoch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrazione (Livorno, per M. Coltellini, 1765), by Giovanni Del Turco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traite de paix entre Descartes et Newton, précédé des view littéraires de ces deux chefs de la physique moderne ... (Avignon, Chez la veuve Girard, 1763), by Aimé-Henri Paulian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio della filosofia del signor cav. Isaaco Newton, (Venezia, F. Stori, 1733), by Henry Pemberton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anti-newtonianismi pars prima [-secunda] ... opera, ac studio Caelestini Cominale ... (Neapoli, ex typographia Benedicti Gessari, 1754-1756), by C. Cominale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raccolta di opuscoli sopra le opinioni filosofiche di Newton. (In Venezia, Presso Giambattista Recurti, 1746), by Nicolaas Harsoeker, Jean Le Clerc, and George Cheyne, ed. by Antonio Maria Vannachi and Jacopo Lorenzo Tosi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newton und die mechanische Naturwissenschaft. Zu Newton's Gedächtniss im zweiten Säcularjahre seiner Geburt. (Leipzig, Arnold, 1858), by Karl Snell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physikalische prinzipien der naturlehre und Isaak Newtons Mathematische prinzipien, (Kiel, Lipsius & Tischer, 1912), by Hugo Groth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber die principien der Galilei-Newton'schen theorie. Akademische antrittsvorlesung gehalten in der aula der universität Leipzig...1869, (Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1870), by Carl Neumann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophiæ mathematicæ Newtonianæ illustratæ. (Londini, Sumptibus T. Meighan, 1730), by George Peter Domcke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newton, sa vie, ses écrits et ses découvertes, d'après les nouvelles publications anglaises ... ([Paris, Bureau de la Revue des deux mondes, 1856]), by Paul Louis Étienne de Rémusat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchungen über den Begriff der Kraft. Newton. (Berlin, J. F. Starcke, [1884]), by Emil Eduard Gustav Stroetzel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teorico delle forze che agiscono secondo la legge di Newton e sua applicazione alla elettricità statica, (Pisa, Tipografia Pieraccini, 1865), by Enrico Betti (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bibliography of the works of Sir Isaac Newton, together with a list of books illustrating his works; (Cambridge, Macmillan & Bowes, 1888), by G. J. Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short comment on Sir I. Newton's Principia. Containing notes upon some difficult places of that excellent book ... (London, Printed for J. Nourse, 1770), by William Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A view of Sir Isaac Newton's method for comparing the resistance of solids. (London, 1734), by Christopher Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber Newton's farbentheorie, herrn von Goethe's Farbenlehre und den chemischen gegensatz der farben. Ein versuch in der experimentalen optik. (Leipzig, F.C.W. Vogel, 1813), by C. H. Pfaff (page images at HathiTrust)
• An easy and pleasant introduction to Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy : containing the first principles of mechanics, trigonometry, optics, and astronomy / (London : Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1772), by John Ryland and James Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tracts on the resolution of affected algebräick equations by Dr. Halley's, Mr. Raphson's, and Sir Isaac Newton's, methods of approximation. (London, Printed by J.Davis, 1800), by Francis Maseres, John Kersey, and William Frend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collections for the history of the town and soke of Grantham : containing authentic memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton, now first published from the original mss. in the possession of the Earl of Portsmouth / (London : Printed for William Miller, by W. Bulmer and Co., 1806), by Edmund Turnor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Système général de philosphie extrait des ouvrages de Descartes et de Newton: ouvrage dans lequel, après avoir rapporté les particularités les plus interessantes des vies de ces deux chefs de la physique moderne, on examine leurs découvertes en tout genre, & on en montre l'analogie. (Avignon, Chez la veuve Girard & F. Seguin, 1769), by Aimé-Henri Paulian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of researches into the origin and progress of historical time, from the creation to the accession of C. Caligula : an attempt to ascretain the dates of the more notable events in ancient universal history by astronomical calculation; the mean quantity of generations, proportionate to the standard of natural life, in the several ages of the world, magistracies, national epochs, &c; and to connect, by an accurate chronology, the times of the Hebrews with those of the co-existent pagan empires, interspersed with remarks on Archbishop Usher's Annals of the Old and New Testament. Subjoined is an appendix, containing strictures on Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology of ancient kingdoms, and on Mr. Falconer's Chronological tables, from Solomon to the death of Alexander the Great. / (London, : Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W.Davies, 1796), by Walker,Robert, fl. 1796 (page images at HathiTrust)
• The general laws of nature and motion; with their application to mechanicks. Also the doctrine of the centripetal forces, and velocities of bodies, describing any of the conick sections. Being a part of the great Mr. Newton's Principles. The whole illustrated with variety of useful theorems and problems, and accommodated to the use of the younger mathematicians. (London, Printed by T. Mead, for J. Seller and C. Price; and J. Senex, 1705), by Humphry Ditton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The general laws of nature and motion; with their application to mechanicks. Also the doctrine of the centripetal forces, and velocities of bodies, describing any of the conick sections. Being a part of the great Mr. Newton's Principles. The whole illustrated with variety of useful theorems and problems, and accommodated to the use of the younger mathematicians. (London, Printed for R. Mount and company, M DCC IX), by Humphry Ditton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophia britannica: or, A new & comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy & geomgraphy. In a course of twelve lectures, with notes, containing the physical, mechanical, geometrical, & experimental proofs & illustrations of all the principal propositions in every branch of natural science. Also a particular account of the invention ... of all the considerable instruments, engines, & machines ... (reading, Printed by C. Micklewright & co. for the author [etc., etc.], 1747), by Benjamin Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Göthe im recht gegen Newton. (Berlin, F.A. Herbig, 1857), by Friedrich Graevell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Praelectiones physico-mathematicae Cantabrigiae in scholis publicis habitae. Quibus philosophia illustrissimi Newtoni mathematica explicatius traditur, & facilius demonstratur: Cometographia Malleiana commentariolo illustratur. (Cantabrigiae, typis Academicis; impensis B. Tooke, Londoni, 1710), by William Whiston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Praelectiones physico-mathematicae Cantabrigiae in acholis publicis habitae. Quibus philosophia illustrissimi Newtoni mathematica explicatius traditur, & facilius demonstratur: Cometographia etiam Falleiana commentariolo illustratur. Cui accedunt, in hac secunda editione, XI, praelectiones de eclipsibus antiquis. (Londini, impensis B. Motte, 1726), by William Whiston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of the learned ... (1724), by John Conrad Francis de Hatzfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Matter & gravity in Newton's physical philosophy / (London : Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1926), by Adolph Judah Snow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Newton and Flamsteed. Remarks on an article in number CIX. of the Quarterly review. (Cambridge [Eng.] J. & J.J. Deighton; London, J.W. Parker, 1836), by William Whewell (page images at HathiTrust)
• La philosophie de Newton / (Paris : F. Alcan, 1908), by Léon Bloch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A bibliography of the works of Sir Isaac Newton : together with a list of books illustrating his works / (Cambridge : Bowes and Bowes, 1907), by G. J. Gray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay on Newton's "Principia," / (London, New York : Macmillan and co., 1893), by W. W. Rouse Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio della filosofia del signor cav. Isaaco Newton, (Venezia, F. Stori, 1745), by Henry Pemberton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petri Sigorgne ... Praelectiones astronomiae Newtonianae, ad vsvm stvdiosae jvventvtis. Ab ipso avetore plvrimvm avetas et emendatas, ed. Avg. Frid. Boeckivs ... Accessit Epistola avetoris ad editorem de Ivee et attractione. (Tvbingae, svmtibvs I. G. Cottae, 1769), by M. l'abbé Sigorgne, ed. by August Friedrich Bök (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Christian pamphlets. ([United States : s.n., 1800-1856]), by William R. Williams, Pascoe Grenfell Hill, Daniel Webster, George F. Magoun, John Wesley, Chauncey Richardson, John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, Horace B. Chapin, Wilbur Fisk, Edward Dorr Griffin, Dionysius Lardner, William Stevenson, William. Life of Dr. Adam Smith. 1833 Draper, John Arthur Roebuck, and American Bible Union. Bible question decided in a correspondence between the American Bible Union and Rev. William R. Williams. 1852 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de Newton, ([Paris, Impr. d'Éverat, 18--]), by Jean-Baptiste Biot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of Sir Isaac Newton, containing an account of his numerous inventions and discoveries; and a brief sketch of the history of astronomy previous to his time. Compiled from authenic documents. (Dublin, J. M'Glashan, 1849), by George Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the life and work of Newton, (Chicago, London, The Open court publishing company, 1914), by Augustus De Morgan and Philip E. B. Jourdain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From Newton to Einstein; changing conceptions of the universe, (New York, D. Van Nostrand company, 1920), by Benjamin Harrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical sketch of Sir Isaac Newton / (Grantham : S. Ridge ; London : Simpkin, Marshall, 1858), by E. F. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelles études sur l'histoire de la pensée scientifique / (Paris : F. Alcan, 1911), by Gaston Milhaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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