Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts (Hardcover)

Preface; I. 1727-1822; 1. The last conflagration; 2. Sincere search; 3. To gratify men's curiosities; II. 1822-1872; 4 Deranged studies; 5. Lighting the fire; 6. Marginal notation; 7. Any scrap; 8. Monsters of perfection; III. 1872-1888; 9. Proudest boast; 10. A hiatus in the history; 11. Examine, classify, divide; IV. 1888-1936; 12. Human documents; 13. Hundreds of feet of mellow calf; 14. Four shillings; 15. Pioneers of science; 16. L9,000; 17. A very substantial collection; 18. Arab's antiquities; 19. Last of the magicians; V. 1936-the present; 20. Founding of a discipline; 21. We know nothing of Newton here; 22. Newtonian industry; 23. Newton's paper trail; 24. Unity and flux; 25. Ultimate value