who are interested in such things, by applying to the 



Curator of the British Museum may see and turn the 



leaves of this book, reading the gracious inscription of 



the author, while a solemn man in brass buttons 



stands behind ^ < 



Newton died March 20, 1727, aged eighty-five, and was 



buried in Westminster Abbey. 



The verdict of humanity concerning Sir Isaac Newton 



has been summed up by Laplace thus : HIS WORK 



WAS PRE-EMINENT ABOVE ALL OTHER 



PRODUCTS OF THE HUMAN INTELLECT. 



LITTLE 

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