Newton on Place, Time, and God: An Unpublished Source

Abstract

Manuscript Add. 3965, section 13, folios 541 r –542 r and 545 r –546 r is in the Portsmouth Collection of manuscripts and housed in the University Library, Cambridge. These drafts contain a careful account, in Newton's hand, of his views on place, time, and God. They are part of a large number of drafts relating to the three official editions of the Principia published in Newton's lifetime.