Isaac Newton 1686 · Cambridge
An occasional garden walk
Occasional · Estimated placement
Estimated by typical tue. 16:00 is illustrative, not a daily appointment.Source timing: Occasional; hour unspecified.
“a short Walk or two”
Short verbatim excerpt · Humphrey Newton
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Assistant’s recollections · manuscript transcriptionOpen
Two letters to John Conduitt
January and February 1727/8 · The Newton Project
Keynes Ms. 135, King’s College, Cambridge · normalized transcription
Passage: First letter, p. 3; second letter, p. 5
Timing & context
A note on this hour
Sometimes he hurried upstairs to write while still standing.
Cambridge · the Principia years · Assistant’s retrospective account
Humphrey recalled about five years of service. His account gives habits rather than a timetable; occasional garden walks remain labelled as such.
1686 represents the 1680s period when Humphrey Newton assisted him; it is not the date of a recorded day.
Manuscript catalogue · The Newton Project ↗