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graduate at Cambridge, to examine. Af-
ter perusal, he lent them to his kindest of
friends, J. C. Adams (the discoverer of Nep-
tune), for his opinion. Adams’s final ver-
dict was: ”I fear they are of no value. It
is pretty evident that, when he wrote these
notes, Newton’s mathematics were a little
rusty .”
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