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

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