Which peer is listed as owner of the 1689 Portrait of Isaac Newton?
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Earl of Portsmouth
Which peer is listed as owner of the 1689 Portrait of Isaac Newton?
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Which Bank of England banknote featured Isaac Newton on the reverse from 1978 until its withdrawal in 1988?
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£1 note
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In 1717, Newton's mint report set the value of which gold coin at 21 shillings?
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Guinea
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Who translated and published Newton's Method of Fluxions in 1736?
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John Colson
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Newton's identities relate power sums to what kind of polynomials?
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Elementary symmetric polynomials
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What Latin phrase in Newton's General Scholium means 'I frame no hypotheses'?
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Hypotheses non fingo
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What essay did Newton append to the 1713 second edition of the Principia?
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General Scholium