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SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727)
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Edition tertia aucta et emendata, edited by Henry Pemberton. London: William & John Innys, 1726. 4° (242 x 187 mm). Half-title, title printed in red and black, publisher's catalogue, and privilege leaf. Engraved portrait frontispiece by George Vertue after Vanderbank, engraved diagrams. (Spotting on the first few leaves and in some margins, small paper flaw in the title, title and dedication with stamp excised and filled-in, small repairs in the margins of the frontispiece.) Contemporary calf, red morocco label (re-backed, edges repaired, front cover stained). Provenance: contemporary reader (marginalia on Uuu4) -- ?French naval institution (partially legible stamp, in blind).
The third edition, the last published in the author's lifetime, and THE BASIS FOR ALL SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS. This edition of 750 copies included a new preface by Newton 'and a large number of alterations, the most important being the scholium on fluxions, in which Leibnitz had been mentioned by name. This had been considered an acknowledgment of Leibnitz's independent discovery of the calculus' (Babson). Babson 13; Gray 9.
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Edition tertia aucta et emendata, edited by Henry Pemberton. London: William & John Innys, 1726. 4° (242 x 187 mm). Half-title, title printed in red and black, publisher's catalogue, and privilege leaf. Engraved portrait frontispiece by George Vertue after Vanderbank, engraved diagrams. (Spotting on the first few leaves and in some margins, small paper flaw in the title, title and dedication with stamp excised and filled-in, small repairs in the margins of the frontispiece.) Contemporary calf, red morocco label (re-backed, edges repaired, front cover stained). Provenance: contemporary reader (marginalia on Uuu4) -- ?French naval institution (partially legible stamp, in blind).
The third edition, the last published in the author's lifetime, and THE BASIS FOR ALL SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS. This edition of 750 copies included a new preface by Newton 'and a large number of alterations, the most important being the scholium on fluxions, in which Leibnitz had been mentioned by name. This had been considered an acknowledgment of Leibnitz's independent discovery of the calculus' (Babson). Babson 13; Gray 9.
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