Sir Isaac Newton's Pocket Knowledge: A Virtual Tour of a Morgan Library Notebook

Long before becoming one of the most celebrated figures in the history of science, Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) kept a pocket-sized memorandum book, filling it with notes distilled from reading during his grammar school and early Cambridge days. Join Philip S. Palmer, Robert H. Taylor Curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts, for a closer look at this notebook, which comprises a diverse range of recipes, astronomical tables, mathematical problems, and linguistic observations.

[@unchilgisam]

3:11 notebook inscription 4:12 john bates 6:08 drawings, colors, recipes 8:45 lol 9:59 secretary script (newton’s handwritings) 11:36 recipes from some (possibly quack) doctor 14:35 party tricks 16:09 astro observation 19:48 copernican model, perpetual motion, sundial... 21:25 ink luv 21:45 more math... 23:07 tete-beche binding, linguistics 28:53 sources

[@robbeason]

This was excellent. Thank you.

[@evandro_rubert]

Great video. Thank you so much! Congratulations for the work

[@RudyTheMaster]

I loved it! Thank you!

[@singlespies]

Fascinating, thanks!

[@neallucas]

Must’ve been something everyone must getting ahold of during the day’s

[@willakana3369]

Thank you =]

[@nirv]

Did you scan this and put it on the internet archive?

[@QueenQueefer]

So are we not going to talk about how he wrote about preserving raw flesh. He also wrote meat many times throughout the notebook. I think writing flesh instead of meat here implies…

[@tehufn]

Can I get a copy of his book?

[@mimahmud6422]

What is the seize of this note book

[@eloquentlight]

Well presented and well done!

[@erikolsen1333]

Got any Euler ? Or maxwell?

[@mikewilliams7766]

Smartest man ever.

[@RudyTheMaster]

Omg he was a trickster!

[@williamfindspeople4341]

I don't think his calculations came from a printed book, because lithography did not start until 1796. It would have had to come from an etching manuscript. They began in c 1515. If at all. He lived in the time of manuscripts, not printed books. 1440 was the Gutenberg experience. He definitely had an inquisitive nature.

[@anonymousforever]

Why do Americans have so much trouble getting their facts straight about anything outside of the US?! "He was at a grammar school in Grantham about seven miles outside of Lincolnshire". LOL. Lincolnshire is a county of England and Grantham is a town WITHIN said county. Hope this video is not for teaching, because you ain't up for teaching anybody the facts!