Bonfoy Trimnell (d. 1691): Birthday Poet, and Donor of Newton’s Principia
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(2021): 15
New College’s copy of the first edition of Isaac Newton’s 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?
New College Library, Oxford, BT1.128.26