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NEWTON (ISAAC) Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica...Editio tertia aucta & emendata, William and John Innys, 1726
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NEWTON (ISAAC)
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica...Editio tertia aucta & emendata, edited by Henry Pemberton, imprimatur leaf, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece by George Vertue after Vanderbank, title printed in red and black, numerous woodcut diagrams, index, lacks final advertisement leaf, contemporary calf, rebacked, very worn [Babson 13; Wallis 9], 4to (238 x 187mm.), William and John Innys, 1726
Footnotes
The last edition published during the author's lifetime and the basis of all subsequent editions. It was edited by Henry Pemberton, and contains a new preface by Newton and a substantial number of alterations, "the most important being the scholium on fluxions, in which Leibnitz is mentioned by name" (Babson).
Provenance: John Vandeleur Stewart, of Rock Hill, County Donegal, bookplate.





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