Certain Philosophical Questions: Newton's Trinity Notebook

Edited with commentary (325 pp) by J.E. McGuire and Martin Tamny, 519pp, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983, ISBN 0-521-23164-7.
Printed facsimile of ULC Add MS 3996 Questiones quaedam Philosophicae ("QQP") with on the page transcription into modern spelling. Also, facsimile of ULC Add MS 3975 Of Colours. This is a thorough, almost line by line, analysis of QQP. My criticism of their comments on the Two Falling Globes experiment is the exception rather than the rule. QQP marked the beginning of Newton's study of 17th century natural philosophy and all of his famous discoveries in science grew from essays in this notebook.

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