/ en /isaac-newtons-heresy-new-college <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2025-07/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%20361.4%2C%20f.%201r%20%5Bdetail%5D.jpeg.webp?itok=0wM-EXst" width="655" height="435" alt="New College Library, Oxford, MS 361/4, f. 1r [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Isaac Newton’s Heresy at New College </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Patrick Maxwell</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2025): 23</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/90" hreflang="en">MS361/4</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/92" hreflang="en">Isaac Newton</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/639" hreflang="en">John Locke</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>Isaac Newton’s most controversial religious principle was his bitterly held opposition to the doctrine of the Trinity. The extraordinary and voluminous collection of Newton manuscripts and papers in New College Library contains an autograph manuscript copy of his <em>An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture</em>. Written in 1690, it is among Newton’s most fiercely argued texts.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>‘An historical account of two notable corruptions of Scripture, in a Letter to a Friend’<br>New College Library, Oxford, MS 361/4, f. 1r [detail]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2025-07/23NCN7%20%282025%29%20Maxwell%20on%20Newton.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=507871" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">23NCN7 (2025) Maxwell on Newton.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">495.97 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:56:22 +0000 Christopher 3388 at