Assertion: newton | /r/CapableOf | make progress
Facets:
value: towards finishing the revisions
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Richard Bentley, master of Trinity College, persuaded Newton to allow him to undertake a second edition, and in June 1708 Bentley wrote to Newton with a specimen print of the first sheet, at the same time expressing the (unfulfilled) hope that Newton had made progress towards finishing the revisions.