NEWTON'S LIBRARY
FOUND AFTER 200 YEARS LITERARY DISCOVERY By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Tuesday. The library of Sir Isaac Newton has been discovered after 200 years. Newton died intestate and it was never known’ 1 ' where his 2,000 volumes went. Now at last 600 of them have been found in a house in Gloucestershire, where they have been since 1727. Those found include Newton’s early college books, such as an English grammar, Euclid, a Greek and Latin lexicon, which was purchased in 1661 at a cost to Newton of sixpence, and a copy of the philosophy of Descartes. There is also Newton’s well-thumbed copy of his own “Principia,” profusely correction for the second edition. The discovery is a literary romance.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 1
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