The work stands unparallelled in the history of scientific thought."The monumental achievement of Newton (1642-1727), it is the foundation work on dynamics and gravitation. Macomber traced 148 extant copies of the two-line imprint, but only 47 of the three-line" (Neville).Perhaps no other scientific book has changed the thought of man as profoundly as Newton's magnum opus, the "Principia", which is generally considered the most important book within the field of science. "The first edition comprised only three hundred to four hundred copies. Smith imprint, of "the greatest work on exact science that human mind has ever conceived" (Babson). First edition, in the extremely scarce "Export issue" (meant for distribution on the Continent) with the cancel title-page bearing the three-line Sam. Neville: "During the printing of the "Principia" various corrections were made, but when the sheets were gathered for binding, no attention was paid to those corrected or uncorrected, and no particular group of variants can be associated with either issue").
1-383 + 400 - 510 - Gray: "Then there is the omitted paging between the Second and Third Books, though the last page of the Second Book was altered from 384 to 400 to show the omission was known, and the *** used as signature to the last sheet of the Second Book, to avoid the overlapping of signatures.", (1, -errata)) + 1 folded plate. Except for the wanting leaves a fine and attractive copy. 6 last leaves with marginal paper restoration, far from affecting lettering.
#PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA NEWTON PROFESSIONAL#
A few small professional repairs to ***2, causing minor loss of a few letters, which have been added in fine hand, barely noticeable. A small marginal paper restoration to Zz2. A small wormtrack to lower margin of leaves Ww3 to Yy4, with light rice-paper-restoration to five of the leaves, none of it causing loss of lettering. Leaves Y2 to Aa2 and Dd4 to Gg2 with a minor marginal wormtrack to upper corner, not affecting lettering. Otherwise fine with only a bit of soiling. Quire A (including the title page), cancel leaf P4, quire Fff, folding plate of comet, and the errata leaf Ooo4 all supplied in very good facsimile on near contemporary paper (in total 11 leaves), lacking the final blank. This fully contemporary binding, presumably the one that the book was given before it was released in trade, has been re-stitched, leaving an extra folding to the front hinge.
#PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA NEWTON FULL#
Contemporary full Dutch vellum with four raised bands and "Newton" in ink on spine. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
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