Item #102406 The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes. Isaac NEWTON.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.

Fine set in original bindings of the first edition of Newton's Principia in English

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, the Laws of the Moon´s Motion, according to Gravity. Two volumes.

London: Benjamin Motte, 1729.

A. Motte. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #102406

Exceptional set in its original bindings, virtually untouched internally and complete in every respect. 8vo (198 x 118 mm, 196 x 120 mm). Volume I with engraved frontispiece by A. Motte, [38], [1] 2-320 pp. and with 25 folding engraved plates (numbered I to XXV); volume II with engraved frontispiece by A. Motte, [2], 393, [13], viii, 71 [1] pp. and with 19 folding engraved plates (numbered I to XIX), 3 unnumbered additional folding engraved plates bound at the end, and 2 folding tables. Leaf a3 (pp. v-vi) is misbound before p. ii. In all, there are 2 frontispieces, 47 plates, 2 tables and 3 head-pieces by Motte, as called for. Both volumes are bound in contemporary calf and housed in a custom-made slipcase. All hinges are expertly restored (not rebacked). There is little gilt ruling to spines and boards. The spine ends are a bit scuffed and the spine, boards and extremities rather worn. Internally, both volumes are exceptionally crisp with only little occasional dust soiling or browning mostly at outer margins. The final plate XXV in volume I is creased, soiled and a bit frayed, the fore-edge of leaf K7 has a tear not affecting the text. The frontispiece of volume II has a tear at the fore-edge with little loss in blank margin, plate XII is a bit spotted, and there is an old repair of a short tear in plate XV. Otherwise, both volumes are in near fine condition, with full margins, and in its first bindings. Provenance: William Marrat* (inscribed on front pastedown of vol. I "W. Marrat, Boston, 1808"), Edward Page, Walkington (inscribed on vol. I title-page dated 27 March 1815). Occasional pencil marginalia by a learned mathematician, possibly by William Marrat in volume I. Geo(rge) Gouldworth (insribed on title-page of volume II, errata corrected in text by his hand). ----

Babson 20; Norman 1587; PMM 161 (1st Lat. ed.); Wallis 23. - FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF NEWTON'S "PRINCIPIA", widely regarded to be the greatest work in the history of science. Motte's translation is highly regarded, and subsequent scholars have made revisions and corrections to the later editions, rather than undertake a new translation themselves. The first edition of Newton's Principia was in Latin, published in 1687. Two further London editions followed, in 1713 and 1726, in addition to a 1714 Amsterdam edition, before the revolutionary work (which Einstein described as "perhaps the greatest intellectual stride it has ever been granted for any man to make") became available to a wider lay audience with this handsomely printed English translation by Motte. It contains John Machin's attempt to rectify Newton's lunar theory, The Laws of the Moon's Motion, according to Gravity, here added to the end of the second volume. Motte's translation of Newton's System of the World occupies page 200 on in the second volume. Because the book saw wide circulation and is of enduring interest, with commensurately heavy use, copies as fresh as this in contemporary bindings are of genuine rarity.
*William Marrat (1772-1852) worked as a printer and publisher while at Boston, Lincolnshire. In 1811-12 he, in conjunction with Pishey Thompson, ran The Enquirer, or Literary, Mathematical, and Philosophical Repository, Boston. At other times Marrat was a teacher of mathematics, in Lincolnshire and elsewhere. He lived in New York from 1817 to 1820, and edited there The Scientific Journal (imprint "Perth Amboy, N. J. and New York", 1818, nine numbers). He returned to England and settled at Liverpool in 1821. George Boole taught at his school in 1833. From 1833 to 1836 Marrat was mathematical tutor in a school at Exeter. He was for fifty years a contributor to mathematical serials, including The Ladies' Diary and The Gentlemen's Diary, The Receptacle, The Student, and the Leeds Correspondent. His first book was An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Mechanics, Boston, 1810, pp. 468. . . See more images on our website.

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