NEWTON'S LIBRARY FOUND
DISCOVERY A ROMANCE OF BOOKS, By Telegraph—Proas Aeen.—Copyright. Received Feb. 8, 8.45 p.m. A. and N.Z. London, iFeb. 7. Isaac Newton’s library has been discovered after *2OO years. It is indeed a romance of books. Newton died intestate and it was never known where the two thousand volumes went. Now at least six hundred have been found in a Gloucestershire house, where they have been since 1717. They include Newton’s early college books, >eudh os English, Euclid, Greek, Latin, a lexicon, purchased in 1661, costing Newton sixpence a copy. There is a Dea Cartes philosophy and also a wellthumbed Newton’s copy of hie own principia, profusely corrected for the second edition.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1928, Page 8
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