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Isaac Newton. Papers connected with the Principia (MS Add.3965, detail of leaf 1r)
Cambridge University Library, CC BY-NC 3.0
“The Newton Project and the Development of a Digital Edition”
A lecture by Scott Mandelbrote
This talk will describe the work of the Newton Project (founded in 1998) and associated activities to digitize and edit the manuscripts of Isaac Newton. It will begin with a survey of Newton's archive and its wanderings over time, and will then summarize the achievements of the Project so far. It will then outline some future possibilities, as well as considering some of the lessons that have been learned in the course of the project about the creation, maintenance, and presentation of large archives of digitized data.
Scott Mandelbrote is the Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History
Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
Newton Project: www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk
For additional information, please contact John Overholt at Overholt@fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-2439.