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== Further reading == === Primary === {{refbegin|colwidth=30em}} * Newton, Isaac. ''The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.'' [[University of California Press]], (1999) ** Brackenridge, J. Bruce. ''The Key to Newton's Dynamics: The Kepler Problem and the Principia: Containing an English Translation of Sections 1, 2, and 3 of Book One from the First (1687) Edition of Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy'', University of California Press (1996) * Newton, Isaac. ''The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton. Vol. 1: The Optical Lectures, 1670β1672'', Cambridge University Press (1984) ** Newton, Isaac. ''Opticks'' (4th ed. 1730) [https://archive.org/details/opticksoratreat00newtgoog online edition] ** Newton, I. (1952). Opticks, or A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light. New York: Dover Publications. * Newton, I. ''Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World'', tr. A. Motte, rev. [[Florian Cajori]]. Berkeley: University of California Press (1934) * {{cite book |editor-link=Tom Whiteside |editor-last=Whiteside |editor-first=D. T. |title=The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1967β1982 |isbn=978-0-521-07740-8}} β 8 volumes. * Newton, Isaac. ''The correspondence of Isaac Newton,'' ed. H.W. Turnbull and others, 7 vols (1959β77) * ''Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings'' edited by H.S. Thayer (1953; online edition) * Isaac Newton, Sir; J Edleston; [[Roger Cotes]], ''Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes, including letters of other eminent men'', London, John W. Parker, West Strand; Cambridge, John Deighton (1850, Google Books) * Maclaurin, C. (1748). ''An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries, in Four Books''. London: A. Millar and J. Nourse * Newton, I. (1958). ''Isaac Newton's Papers and Letters on Natural Philosophy and Related Documents'', eds. I.B. Cohen and R.E. Schofield. Cambridge: Harvard University Press * Newton, I. (1962). ''The Unpublished Scientific Papers of Isaac Newton: A Selection from the Portsmouth Collection in the University Library, Cambridge'', ed. A.R. Hall and M.B. Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press * Newton, I. (1975). ''Isaac Newton's 'Theory of the Moon's Motion''' (1702). London: Dawson {{refend}} === Alchemy === {{Refbegin}} * {{cite book|last=Craig|first=John|title=Newton at the Mint|date=1946|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge, England}} * {{cite book|last=Craig|first=John|title=The Mint: A History of the London Mint from A.D. 287 to 1948|chapter=XII. Isaac Newton|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=1953|place=[[Cambridge]], England|pages=198β222|asin=B0000CIHG7}} * {{cite book|author-link=Richard de Villamil|last=de Villamil|first= Richard|title=Newton, the Man|publisher=G. D. Knox|location=London|year=1931}} β Preface by Albert Einstein. Reprinted by Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York (1972) * {{cite book|last=Dobbs|first=B. J. T.|title=The Foundations of Newton's Alchemy or "The Hunting of the Greene Lyon"|year=1975|publisher=Cambridge University Press|place=Cambridge}} * {{cite book|author-link=John Maynard Keynes|last=Keynes|first=John Maynard|title=Essays in Biography|publisher=W. W. Norton & Co|date=1963|isbn=((978-0-393-00189-1))<!-- gbooks landing page for isbn is 1963 edition despite date mismatch --> |url=https://archive.org/details/essaysinbiograph0000keyn}} Keynes took a close interest in Newton and owned many of Newton's private papers. * {{cite book|last=Stukeley|first=W.|title=Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life|publisher=Taylor and Francis|place=London|date=1936}} (edited by A.H. White; originally published in 1752) * Trabue, J. "Ann and Arthur Storer of Calvert County, Maryland, Friends of Sir Isaac Newton," ''[[The American Genealogist]]'' 79 (2004): 13β27. {{Refend}} === Religion === {{refbegin|colwidth=40em}} * Dobbs, Betty Jo Tetter. ''The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought.'' (1991), links the alchemy to Arianism * Force, James E., and Richard H. Popkin, eds. ''Newton and Religion: Context, Nature, and Influence.'' (1999), pp. xvii, 325.; 13 papers by scholars using newly opened manuscripts * {{cite journal |last1=Pfizenmaier |first1=Thomas C. |title=Was Isaac Newton an Arian? |journal=Journal of the History of Ideas |year=1997 |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=57β80 |doi=10.1353/jhi.1997.0001 |jstor=3653988 |s2cid=170545277 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Ramati |first1=Ayval |title=The Hidden Truth of Creation: Newton's Method of Fluxions |journal=The British Journal for the History of Science |date=2001 |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=417β38 |doi=10.1017/S0007087401004484 |jstor=4028372 |s2cid=143045863 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Snobelen |first1=Stephen D. |title='God of Gods, and Lord of Lords': The Theology of Isaac Newton's General Scholium to the Principia |journal=Osiris |date=2001 |volume=16 |pages=169β208 |doi=10.1086/649344 |jstor=301985 |bibcode=2001Osir...16..169S |s2cid=170364912 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Snobelen |first1=Stephen D. |title=Isaac Newton, heretic: the strategies of a Nicodemite |journal=The British Journal for the History of Science |date=December 1999 |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=381β419 |doi=10.1017/S0007087499003751 |jstor=4027945 |s2cid=145208136 }} {{refend}} === Science === {{refbegin|colwidth=40em}} * {{cite book|last=Bechler|first=Zev|title=Contemporary Newtonian Research (Studies in the History of Modern Science)(Volume 9)|date=2013|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-94-009-7717-4}} * Berlinski, David. ''Newton's Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World.'' (2000); {{isbn|0-684-84392-7}} * {{cite book|title=Newton's Principia for the Common Reader|last=Chandrasekhar|first=Subrahmanyan|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1995|isbn=978-0-19-851744-3|location=Oxford|author-link=Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar}} * Cohen, I. Bernard and Smith, George E., ed. ''The Cambridge Companion to Newton.'' (2002). Focuses on philosophical issues only; excerpt and text search; complete edition online {{cite web |url=http://www.questia.com/read/105054986 |title=The Cambridge Companion to Newton |access-date=13 October 2008 |archive-date=8 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008010311/http://www.questia.com/read/105054986 |url-status=bot: unknown }} ** {{cite book | title=The Cambridge Companion to Newton | publisher=Cambridge University Press | date=2016 | isbn=978-1-139-05856-8 | doi=10.1017/cco9781139058568 | ref={{sfnref|Cambridge University Press|2016}} | editor-last1=Iliffe | editor-last2=Smith | editor-first1=Rob | editor-first2=George E. }} * {{cite book|last=Christianson|first=Gale|title=In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton & His Times|location=New York|publisher=Free Press|date=1984|isbn=978-0-02-905190-0|url=https://archive.org/details/inpresenceofcr00chri}} This well documented work provides, in particular, valuable information regarding Newton's knowledge of [[Patristics]] * {{cite book|last=Cohen|first=I. B.|title=The Newtonian Revolution|date=1980|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-22964-7}} * {{cite journal|last=Craig|first=John|title=Isaac Newton β Crime Investigator|journal=Nature|year=1958|volume=182|issue=4629|pages=149β52|doi=10.1038/182149a0|bibcode=1958Natur.182..149C|s2cid=4200994}} * {{cite journal|last=Craig|first=John|title=Isaac Newton and the Counterfeiters|journal=Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London |volume=18|issue=2|year=1963|pages=136β45|doi=10.1098/rsnr.1963.0017|s2cid=143981415}} * {{cite book|last=Gleick|first= James|title=Isaac Newton|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|date=2003|isbn=978-0-375-42233-1}} * {{cite journal|last=Halley|first=E.|title=Review of Newton's Principia|year=1687|journal= [[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society|Philosophical Transactions]]|volume=186|pages=291β97}} * [[Stephen Hawking|Hawking, Stephen]], ed. ''On the Shoulders of Giants''. {{isbn|0-7624-1348-4}} Places selections from Newton's ''Principia'' in the context of selected writings by Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Einstein * {{cite book|last=Herivel|first=J. W.|title=The Background to Newton's Principia. A Study of Newton's Dynamical Researches in the Years 1664β84|url=https://archive.org/details/backgroundtonewt0000heri|url-access=registration|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|date=1965}} * Newton, Isaac. ''Papers and Letters in Natural Philosophy'', edited by [[I. Bernard Cohen]]. [[Harvard University Press]], 1958, 1978; {{isbn|0-674-46853-8}}. * {{cite journal|last=Pemberton|first=H.|title=A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy|journal=The Physics Teacher|volume=4|issue=1|pages=8β9|year=1728|bibcode=1966PhTea...4....8M|doi=10.1119/1.2350900}} * {{cite book |last=Shamos |first=Morris H. |title=Great Experiments in Physics |location=New York |publisher=Henry Holt and Company, Inc. |date=1959 }} Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1987, {{isbn|978-0-486-25346-6}}. {{refend}}
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