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Contents of Newton: the Man

This is a list of the marginal headings made by de Villamil in Newton: the Man. The book itself has no contents list.

• Pages 1-6
  • Discovery of the Library
  • The ``Inventary''
  • The South Sea Bubble
  • The Library
  • Discovery of the ``Inventary''
  • Value of the Books
  • The Huggins Collection
  • Purchase of the Library
  • The Musgrave Connection
  • The Bookplates
  • Value of the Catalogue
  • The ``Philosophemur Plate''
  • Barnsley Park
  • Sale of Thame Park
  • Cataloguing the Library
  • British Museum List
• Pages 7-15
  • Mathematician or Physicist
  • Building the Telescope
  • Inventing the Binomial Theorem and Calculus
  • The ``Friend''
  • An Air of Divination
  • Mechanical Power
  • Interest in Classics
  • Newton's Verse
  • His Indifference to Poetry
  • His Puritanism
  • His Imagination
  • Interest in Travel
  • Mathermatical Gems
  • Real Bodies
  • The Opticks
  • No Music
  • Schoolboy Caricatures
  • The Le Marchand Portrait
  • His Prints
  • The Ivory Portrait
  • British Museum Bust
  • Purchase of Paints
  • Crimson Furniture
  • His Irritability
• Pages 15-21
  • Simplicity of Life
  • No Collector
  • The Medals
  • Indifference to Poetry
  • Playing Philosophically
  • Card-Playing
  • Chess
  • Backgammon
  • ``Diamond'' a Myth
  • The Story of the Candle
  • Family Relations
  • The ``Desire for Gain''
  • The Charge of Gambling
  • The South Sea Transaction
  • The Order
  • Wollaston's Letter
  • Suppression of the Transaction
  • Gambling Charge Refuted
  • Newton's Cool Temperament
  • The Explanation
• Pages 22-29
  • Formation of the Company
  • The Monopoly
  • The Annuities
  • Steady Values
  • The King a Governor
  • The National Debt
  • Subscription List Opened
  • Ten per cent Dividend
  • Watered Stock
  • Conversion
  • Advanced Value
  • Liberal Terms
  • Newton subscribes
  • The Exact Transaction
  • No Gamble
  • Sound Business
  • A Question of Judgment
  • The Swindle
  • A Possible Profit
  • The King Sells
  • Newton's Loss
  • Origin of the Scheme
  • The Swindle Explained
  • Multiple Profits
  • Macaulay's Authority
  • Plain Language
  • Family Excesses
• Pages 30-39
  • An Attempt at Bribery
  • The Purchase of Silver
  • A Man of the World
  • A Straw in Amber
  • The Loss Incurred
  • Income Analysed
  • College Career
  • Warden of the Mint
  • Master of the Mint
  • Newton's Income
  • Profits Assessed
  • £2,078 a Year
  • The Sworn Estate
  • Total Income
  • The Assertion of Gambling
  • Royal Society Subscription
  • Wollaston's Comment
  • Consols
  • ``Greed of Gain''
  • Unhallowed Gain
  • Newton's Honesty
  • Hatred of Jobbery
  • Transmutation Possibilities
  • ``Lucriferous'' Philosophy
  • Plain Living
  • The Cellar
  • Abbé Alari's Visit
  • Charge of Stinginess
  • Fiery Wines
• Pages 39-48
  • Dissection of the Eye
  • Personal Research
  • Mechanical Talent
  • The Reflecting Telescope
  • Amateur Carpentry
  • The Best Likenesses
  • The Apple Story
  • Reconstructing the Scene
  • A Rough Calculation
  • Earlier Works
  • Law of Inverse Squares
  • What Newton Did
  • Measuring the Earth
  • Newton's Reasoning
  • The Calculation
  • Problem of Publication
  • Mass of the Earth
  • Reasonable Assumption
  • A Forgotten Reference
  • An Absurd Fiction
  • Dispute with Leibnitz and Flamsteed
  • A Suggested Line of Research
  • Avoiding Contention
  • Hero Worship
  • Lack of Conceit
  • A Faraday Parable
  • Dr. Johnson's Tribute