Item #002691 A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy. Henry PEMBERTON.
A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.
A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.
A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.
A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.
A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.
A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.
A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.
A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.
A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.

A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.

London: S. Palmer, 1728.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002691

4to (272 x 226 mm). [50], 407 [1] pp., including 16 pp. list of subscribers, 12 folding copper-engraved plates, engraved title-page vignette, chapter head-vignettes and decorative initials engraved by J. Pine after J. Grison. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering (hinges repaired, corners scuffed, extremities rubbed and chipped, boards soiled and rubbed, spine ends chipped). Text with light dampstaining and soiling throughout, lower corner of first plate torn with little loss of engraved frame. Still good, wide-margined copy. ----

Babson 98, Gray 132, Honeyman 2442. FIRST EDITION of Pemberton's explanation of Newtonianism, especially written for a general audience without mathematical training. The work remains one of the most important sources on Newton's later years, written by a close friend and one who was invited by Newton to edit the third edition of the Principia. In the list of subscribers Sir Isaac Newton is recorded as having ordered 12 books. This is the first book printed in a Caslon roman type. The plates herein represent the astronomical and mathematical observations of the day. The pictorial head and tail pieces and historiated initials, finely engraved in copper, are quite striking. The engraver, John Pine, was said to have been a pupil of the French engraver Bernard Picart, and was famous for printing a Latin edition of Horace entirely from engraved plates. Dedicated to Walpole. - Visit our website for additional images and information.

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