Assertion: newton | /r/CapableOf | write in his reply
Facets:
value: to the secretary
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: on 18 january
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In his reply to the secretary on 18 January 1672, Newton writes: "I desire that in your next letter you would inform me for what time the society continue their weekly meetings; because, if they continue them for any time, I am purposing them to be considered of and examined an account of a philosophical discovery, which induced me to the making of the said telescope, and which I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument being in my judgment the oddest