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GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001396
TitleExposition of 2 Kings 17:15-16
ShelfmarkHRC 130
Creation Dateca. 1675 - 1679
Contents NoteA lay sermon written by Isaac Newton in the late 1670s, potentially delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Material Features9 leaves; paper.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Conduitt, Catherinemanuscript owner - Newton, Isaacmanuscript owner - Wallop, Gerard
ProvenanceThis letter was previously owned by Catherine Conduitt, Viscountess Lymington (great-niece of Isaac Newton).
AcquisitionGerard Wallop, Viscount Lymington sold the collection of Newton manuscripts known as the Portsmouth Papers at Sotheby's, London, July 1936.
Source of DataHannah Yip
Other NoteSee Stephen D. Snobelen, 'Isaac Newton, heretic: the strategies of a Nicodemite', The British Journal for the History of Science, 32.4 (1999), 318-419 (p. 408).
Sermon Reports Contained
Attached URLs:
URLNotes
norman.hrc.utexas.edu/MnEMgal/130/HRC_130.pdfDigitised copy of HRC 130.
norman.hrc.utexas.edu/pubmnem/details.cfm?id=130Harry Ransom Center catalogue entry for HRC 130.
www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/catalogue/record/THEM00110The Newton Project entry for HRC 130.
GEMMS record createdOctober 27, 2020
GEMMS record last editedFebruary 05, 2021