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NEWTON (ISAAC) Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica...Editio tertia aucta & emendata, William and John Innys, 1726 image 1
NEWTON (ISAAC) Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica...Editio tertia aucta & emendata, William and John Innys, 1726 image 2
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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, engraved portrait frontispiece by George Vertue after Vanderbank, title printed in red and black, imprimatur leaf and advertisement at end, one engraved illustration, numerous woodcut diagrams, institutional stamp on title, 2 leaves soiled, contemporary tree calf, spine tooled in gilt, worn with covers crudely re-attached [Babson 13; Wallis 9], 4to (240 x 185mm.), William and John Innys, 1726

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The last edition of Newton's Principia published during the author's lifetime, in which he explained "for the first time a single mathematical law could explain the motion of objects on earth as well as the phenomena of the heavens... It was this grand conception that produced a general revolution in human thought" (PMM). 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: The English Library, Algiers, stamp on title-page, deaccessioned in 1964 at the time the Old Colony Library merged with the British Council Library, and books were dispersed to library members.

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