Facts and Fiction

Isaac Newton's notebooks provide us with really interesting facts about his studies, his personality and his own life. From How to make excellent good writing ink or An easy way to lessen or enlarge a picture to his lists of expenses or money lent to friends and college partners, this webpage will give you factual information so that your imagination can change it into fiction......

An easy way to lesson or enlarge a picture

Make a square, & then divide it into

divers equall parts with the compasses, & draw o'rethwart lines with a ruler & a pensill, so that the pictur be divided into equall squares, & so make squares on a faire paper as little or big as you will, but let ther bee soemany, as there is in the picture, then observing the order of the squares draw the pictur over with a pensill pasing

from square to square.