1726 Isaac Newton : Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica : Third Edition

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica 

By Isaac Newton

London: apud Guil. et Joh. Innys, Regiae Societatis typographos, 1726. 4to (24.1 x 18.6cm), [34] 530 [8] pp., text in Latin, contemporary panelled calf, symathetically rebacked and recornered, new titlepiece to spine, endpapers renewed, sprinkled edges, half-title, licence leaf, engraved portrait frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, advertisement leaf to rear, woodcut diagrams throughout the text, engraving by John Senex in text at p. 506, bookplate (James Pitt) reimposed to front pastedown, text good throughout with the exception of a damp-stain to gutter of first gathering and frontispiece, half-title lined with Japanese tissue-paper consolidating a closed tear through the text. 

The last published edition in his lifetime, edited by Newton himself, and the basis for all subsequent editions. One of only 1250 copies printed.

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, commonly known as the Principia laid the foundations for classical mechanics and introduced the laws of motion and universal gravitation. This influential text, published in 1687, is considered one of the most important works in the history of science.

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