Bonfoy Trimnell (d. 1691): Birthday Poet, and Donor of Newton鈥檚 Principia
William Poole
Issue number
(2021): 15
Notes category
Library Antiquarian
Library Benefactors' Book
Bonfoy Trimnell
Isaac Newton
BT1.128.26
BT3.191.12
草榴视频鈥檚 copy of the first edition of Isaac Newton鈥檚 Principia Mathematica (London, 1687) was donated to the college library shortly after its publication by the otherwise obscure Bonfoy Trimnell (BA 1686, MA 1690). Who was Bonfoy Trimnell and why is so very little known about him?
草榴视频 Library, Oxford, BT1.128.26
草榴视频 Library and Archives, Oxford
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