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NEWTON, Isaac (1642-1727). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Edited by Henry Pemberton (1694-1771). London: William & John Innys, 1726. 4° (238 x 190mm). With the half-title, advertisement and privilege leaves. Title printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece by George Vertue after Vanderbank, 24 folding engraved plates, diagrams throughout. (Faint dampstain in the margin of a few leaves.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, sides with single blind rule border, edges red, marbled endpapers (some wear at spine head, corners lightly rubbed). Provenance: indistinct shelf-marks pencilled on the title.
Third edition, the last published in Newton's lifetime with his final revisions, and THE BASIS FOR ALL SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS. This edition contains a new preface by Newton, this one mentioning Halley's Comet, numerous alterations, most notably in the scholium on fluxions in which Leibniz is acknowledged for the first time, and a new section on the motion of the lunar nodes. Babson 13-14; Wallis 9.
Third edition, the last published in Newton's lifetime with his final revisions, and THE BASIS FOR ALL SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS. This edition contains a new preface by Newton, this one mentioning Halley's Comet, numerous alterations, most notably in the scholium on fluxions in which Leibniz is acknowledged for the first time, and a new section on the motion of the lunar nodes. Babson 13-14; Wallis 9.
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