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for this work from the original, by kind per-
mission of the Royal Society, London.]
Sir Isaac Newton died in 1727, at the
age of eighty-five. His body lay in state in
the Jerusalem Chamber, and was buried in
Westminster Abbey.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The writer inherited from his father
(Professor J. D. Forbes) a small box con-
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