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"When Sir Isaac Newton died in 1727, he left behind no will and an enormous stack of papers. His surviving correspondences, notes, and manuscripts contain an es
by sanxiyn 12y ago
"When Sir Isaac Newton died in 1727, he left behind no will and an enormous stack of papers. His surviving correspondences, notes, and manuscripts contain an estimated 10 million words, enough to fill up roughly 150 novel-length books."
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/newton-papers-q-and-a/ http://www.wired.com/2014/05/newton-papers-q-and-a/
Those words are being transcribed and published. You can read what is published so far here:
http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=1 http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=1