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Description: 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). [xxxvi], 320pp; 392pp, [xiv], viii, 73pp + plates. 51 b/w plates and charts, many folding. To which is added: The Laws of the Moon's Motion, According to Gravity, by John Machin. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed with some professional restoration and new title panels. Occasional light foxing and marks. Heavy staining to margins of early pages of volume 2, not impinging on text. Title page of volume 2 is a facsimile. Minor extinct worming to last few pages of volume I
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$65000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in English of Isaac Newtonâs Principia. Octavo, two volumes bound in full calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, illustrated with forty-six folding engraved plates and two folding charts. In near find condition. A few leaves with light foxing, pages lightly toned. Plate XXV at the end of volume one supplied in facsimile. An excellent example of this landmark work. "Newtons Principia is generally described as the greatest work in the history of science. Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed, Newton explained the underlying universal laws. The Principia provided the greatest synthesis of the cosmos, proving finally its physical unity. Newton showed that the important and dramatic aspects of nature that were subject to the universal law of gravitation could be explained, in mathematical terms, with a single physical theory. With him the separation of the natural and supernatural, of sublunar and superlunar worlds disappeared. The same laws of gravitation and motion rule everywhere; for the first time a single mathematical law could explain the motion of objects on earth as well as the phenomena of the heavens. The whole cosmos is composed of inter-connecting parts influencing each other according to these laws. It was this grand conception that produced a general revolution in human thought, equaled perhaps only by that following Darwins Origin of Species [Newton] is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time and the founder of mathematical physics" (PMM 161). "It is perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make" (Einstein).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$175000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Editions, First Printings in English of the "Principia" first published in Latin in 1687. A wonderful copy of this two (2) volume complete set with engraved frontispieces by A. Motte, 2 folding letterpress tables, 47 folding engraved plates, and 3 engraved head-pieces by Motte. The books are in excellent shape with minor wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with NO writing or marks in the book with Hugh Lee Pattinson (1796-1858), English chemist, Fellow of the Royal Society armorial bookplate present. Bound in this copy, a total of 5 manuscript leaves comprising a contemporary copy of an excerpt from James Thomsons Summer and an excerpt from Newtons epitaph. A superb copy of this translation of Newtons System of the World follows Mottes translation in Vol. II, and John Machins unsuccessful attempt to clarify Newtons lunar theory appears at the end of Vol. II. We buy Issac Newton First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.