ROMANCE OF BOOKS
NEWTON’S MISSING LIBRARY 600 VOLUMES FOUND London, February 8. Sir Isaac Newton’s library has been discovered after two hundred years. Newton died intestate, and it was never knowm where two thousand volumes went. Now at least six hundred have been found in a Gloucestershire house,
where they have teen since 1717. They include Newton’s early college books, such as English, Euclid, Greek, a Latin lexicon, purchased in 1661, and costing Newton fid., a copy of Descartes’ “Philosophy,” also a well-thumbed copy of his own “Principia,” profusely corrected for the second edition. The discovery forms a romance of books.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 113, 10 February 1928, Page 9
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101ROMANCE OF BOOKS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 113, 10 February 1928, Page 9
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