Newton: the Man

by Lieutenant-Colonel R. de Villamil, Royal Engineers (retired), foreward by Professor Albert Einstein, published by Gordon Knox, London, 1931.

From Albert Einstein's foreward:

Colonel de Villamil deserves the thanks and congratulations of physicists throughout the world for the industry and ingenuity that enabled him to recover for us the substantial remains of Newton's Library, the complete catalogue of the books that he owned and the inventory of all his belongings.

Preface
Contents
Pages 1-6
Pages 7-15
Pages 15-21
Pages 22-29
Pages 30-39
Pages 39-48
Villamil's footnotes
Inventory of Newton's estate
Catalogues of the Library

The foreward by Albert Einstein is not included in full for copyright reasons.


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