Front matter
MEMOIRS
THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND DISCOVERIES
SIR ISAAC NEWTON.
Contents
CHAPTER XXVI.
Newton's first attack of ill health, and his recovery — History of his acquaintance with Dr. Pemberton, who superintends the third edition of the Principia — Their Correspondence — Improvements in the third edition — Change in the celebrated Scholium — And in the Scholium on the Motion of the Moon's Nodes — Demonstration of Machin and Pemberton — Publication of the third edition — Newton attacked with the Stone — Conduitt acts for him in the Mint — 'His Letter recommending Colin Maclaurin as Assistant to Gregory — His Liberality on this occasion — Maclaurin's Letter to Newton — Visit of the Abbe Alari to Newton — His acquaintance with Samuel Crell — He presides at the Royal Society on the 2d March — His last illness — And death on the 20th March 1717 — His Body lies in State — His Burial and Monument in Westminster Abbey — Statues and Pictures of him — His Property — His Descendants,
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