The Macclesfield collection of scientific papers.

Item author: Sir Isaac Newton and other scientists
Item date: 17th & 18th Centuries
(this is an approximate date)
Grant Value: 20,000
Item cost: 6,373,820
Item date acquired: 2000
Item institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Includes material concerning the dispute with Leibnitz over priority in the invention of the calculus

Item Provenance
The Earl of Macclesfield, private treaty via Sothebys
Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins, 6 February 1669/70, written from Trinity College. Image courtesy of Cambridge University Library.
Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins, 6 February 1669/70, written from Trinity College. Image courtesy of Cambridge University Library.