SECTION VII. 

 BOOKS. 



*1. A Theological Common-place Book, written from both ends, 

 in Newton's hand. 



2. Four folio MS. volumes, bound in red morocco, and labelled 

 " John Conduitt," entirely in Newton's hand. 



(1) The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms amended. Horsley, 

 v. pp. 28263. 



(2) i. A short chronicle from the first memory of things in 

 Europe to the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great. Printed 

 twice by Horsley, v. pp. 3 27 and pp. 267291. 



ii. Another copy of the Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms 

 amended. 



(3) Observations on the Prophecies. Horsley, v. pp. 297 491. 



(4) De motu Corporum Liber Secundus. 



This is the treatise De Mundi Systemate. Horsley, iii. pp. 

 180242. 



*3. A volume of extracts on Alchemical subjects, in Newton's 

 hand. 



4. (1) A copy of the 1st edition of the Principia, interleaved 

 with notes in Newton's hand. Among the leaves inserted is the 

 preface to the 3rd edition. In a miserable plight from damp and 

 ill-treatment. 



(2) A copy of the second edition of the Principia, interleaved 

 with notes and additions in Newton's hand. 



5. A MS. copy of a portion of the Arithmetica Universalis, 

 apparently an early copy. 



6. A copy of Schooten's edition of Des Cartes' Geometry, 

 Lugd. 1649, with a few notes in Newton's hand. 



7. A short treatise on the beginning of Algebra, in Newton's 

 hand : at the other end are extracts from Quintus Curtius, and a 

 long prayer, and a sermon on Lev. xix. 18, not in N.'s hand. 



8. A common-place book written from both ends, with " Isaac 

 Newton, Trin. Coll. Cant. 1661," in the beginning. 



This contains, at one end, Definitions from Aristotle's Organon, 

 an abridgement of the Phisiologia peripatetica of John Magirus, and 

 some Astronomical notes by Newton : at the other, Sentences from 

 Aristotle's Ethicks, Annotationes ex Eustachii Ethic., Axiomata, 



