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NEWTON, Isaac.

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Editio tertia aucta & emendata.

London: Apud Guil. & Joh. Innys, Regiæ Societatis typographos, 1726.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #004007

4to (241 x 191 mm). [32], 530, [6] pp., including half-title, frontispiece portrait, dedication leaf, Halley's commendatory verse leaf, numerous woodcut diagrams and the engraving on p. 506. Lacking the privilege and the ad leaf. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt-decorated spine with red morocco lettering piece, red sprinkled edges, original endpapers (rebacked, extremities worn and scuffed). Minor occasional, mostly marginal spotting and finger soiling, a few ink markings in places, few tiny wormholes at beginning and towards the end at lower blank margin. In all a clean and crisp copy. Very good copy, here without the Royal privilege and ad leaf as often (never bound in and arguably not called for in copies intended for sale on the continent). ----

STATED THIRD EDITION. The Babson catalogue notes that the license leaf had no assigned signature location, and is found at various places in copies of the regular edition. This edition was the last published during the author's lifetime and is the basis for all subsequent editions. The editor was Henry Pemberton, M.D., F.R.S., and this rescension of the text contains a new preface by Newton and a large number of alterations. The most important of these is in the scholium on fluxions, in which Leibnitz had been mentioned by name in the earlier editions. His name is absent here, leading to claims that Newton was avoiding sharing credit for the development of calculus with his Continental rival.
Bibliography & References: Babson 13; Gray 9; Wallis 9. - Visit our website to see more images!

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