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NEWTONIANISM -- François Marie Arouet de VOLTAIRE (1694-1778). The Elements of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy, London: for Stephen Austen, 1738, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 8 folding engraved plates only (of 10), woodcut illustrations and diagrams, contemporary panelled calf (rebacked, front cover detached) [Babson 121; Wallis 157] -- William WHISTON (1667-1752). Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematick Philosophy, London: for J. Senex and W. Taylor, 1716, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 9 folding engraved plates and tables (dampstains at margins, quire C slightly wormed at lower margin, dirt mark affecting one word on T8r), contemporary calf (spine broken) [Babson 127] -- Humphry DITTON. An Institution of Fluxions, London: by W. Botham for James Knapton, 1706, 8°, FIRST EDITION (library markings), modern cloth [Wallis 251]; and 4 other works on Newton by James Jurin, Benjamin Robins, Nicholas Saunderson and Thomas Simpson. (7)