Help identifying old scientific handwritten manuscript sheet

[impetuous]

"On the Motions of Fluids and Resistance of Projectiles"

Looks and feels ancient, on laid paper.

Hidden behind an 18th century painting I just purchased - I know very little about science, hence this friendly request in case anyone can identify the author perhaps?

Newton would be nice...








Edit for spelling

Edited by impetuous on Thursday 14th February 21:52

[Eric Mc]

Unlikely to be Newton as he wrote in Latin.

[AshVX220]

I'd send those pics to the science museum.

[Zad]

Maybe somebody's university notes? I see it doesn't use the long "f" instead of "s" which might be vaguely diagnostic in terms of date.

[Halmyre]

It uses the compound "long-f s" to denote a double s (pressure, lessen). I also notice centre is written as 'center'.

[daddy cool]

Halmyre said:

It uses the compound "long-f s" to denote a double s (pressure, lessen). I also notice centre is written as 'center'.

Yes, the full sentence reads "embed with force into the center of the croquet lawn".

Page one seems to deal with the optimum temperature and process of freezing pork consumable products.

Who knows what the whole thing is on about...

[bigandclever]

Newton's The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1846)/ BookII-VII, section VII, proposition XXXVI. problem VIII.

That's where you want to be looking.

[outnumbered]

daddy cool said:

Yes, the full sentence reads "embed with force into the center of the croquet lawn".

Page one seems to deal with the optimum temperature and process of freezing pork consumable products.

Who knows what the whole thing is on about...

[impetuous]

Great replies, including the traditional sausage burial.

bigandclever said:

Newton's The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1846)/ BookII-VII, section VII, proposition XXXVI. problem VIII.

That's where you want to be looking.

Apt username, THANK YOU.

Led me to diagram and text ...
Section 332 of
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Mathematical_Pr...

I note Newton wrote in English and well as Latin, so will compare handwriting ... just in case it's Newton's original notes.

[Ace-T]

Fascinating stuff! You need to let us know the outcome.

[bigandclever]

Let’s have a picture of the painting too. I like a good treasure hunt

[V8LM]

Fun. Someone’s (a scholar?) scattered translation of the Principia (see page 334) http://redlightrobber.com/red/links_pdf/Isaac-Newt...