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Lot 309

NEWTON (ISAAC)
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Editio secunda auctior et emedatior, Cambridge, [Cornelius Crownfield at the University Press], 1713

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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NEWTON (ISAAC)

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Editio secunda auctior et emedatior, edited by Roger Cotes, engraved device on title, double-page engraved plate, woodcut diagrams throughout, pp.231/2 creased at margins, small ink splash on 4 pages, contemporary calf, very worn and rebacked, upper cover detached [Babson 12; Wallis 8], 4to (242 x 183mm.), Cambridge, [Cornelius Crownfield at the University Press], 1713

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The second edition of the Principia, with Newton's important revisions and additions to the chapters on lunar and cometary theory, and the Scholium generale, which appears in print for the first time. Also added was Cotes' long preface, essentially "a lengthy and important essay outlining his own version of Newton's method" (ODNB), which was authorised by Newton and Richard Bentley. Babson suggests that 750 copies were printed.

Provenance: a few pencil annotations, ascribed to Sir George Greenhill (1847-1927, mathematician).

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