The Newton Project

Title
  • The Newton Project [Electronic resource]
  • The Newton Manuscript Project
Author

Iliffe, Rob; Young, John; Hawkins, Michael
Availability This resource is freely available, you should be able to download it now.
Languages

English; Latin; Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Editorial Practice

Encoding format: TEI XML
OTA keywords Biographies
LC keywords

Physics--Religious aspects
Physics--Bibliography
Physics literature
Extent
  • designation: Text data
  • size: 1725 files: ca. 331 mb
Creation Date 2004
Source Description

Notes

Mode of access: Online. OTA website

Title proper taken from AHDS Catalogue Form

The resource consists of a number of different pages or files giving information on Newton's life and work and also on the development of the Newton Project. There is also detailed information relating to editorial principles and technical issues relating to the web site. The central focus of the resource is the series of XML encoded transcriptions of Newton's theological works, personal notebooks, all draft biographical information about Newton dating from the eighteenth century, and also many of his early scientific papers.

Iliffe, Rob and John Young. 2004. Newton on the Net: first and prospective fruits of a Royal Society grant. "Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London", 58: 83-88.

Available online at: http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk/