{"product_id":"isaac-newton-draft","title":"PHILOSOPHIAE NATURAlLIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA BY SIR ISAAC NEWTON 1760","description":"\u003cp\u003e[NEWTON, SIR ISAAC]. \u003cstrong\u003ePhilosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Perpetuis Commentariis Illustrata, Communi Studio, PP. Thomae Le Seur \u0026amp; Francisci Jacquier, Ex Gallicana Minimorum Familia, Matheseos Professorum. Editio Altera Longe Accuriator \u0026amp; Emendatior. \u003c\/strong\u003eColonia Allobrogum, Sumptibus Cl[aude] and Ant[oine] Philibert, MDCCLX. [1760].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSECOND 'JESUIT' EDITION. Complete in three volumes; leather-bound; hardcover; quarto (26 x 20 cm); pp. xxxii, 548; [viii], 422; [8], xxviii, 703, [1]. Latin text, edited by Thomas Le Seur and Franciscus Jacquier. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt and with double Morocco labels. First volume only with half-title (as issued) and title printed in red and black. Titles with woodcut decorations, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, numerous diagrams throughout the text, rear index. Provenance: G.W.F. Gregor (bookplate). Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Some shallow chipping or wear to spine ends and corners, volumes one \u0026amp; two upper joint (and hinge) repaired, other joints cracked but holding firm. Volume one with faint residue to gutter of title\/half-title verso (where seemingly once repaired), a few instances of contemporary ink annotation, volumes two and three with some small worming to blank lower- or fore-margins, some light browning, volume three sig. 4T misbound after 4Q.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Second Jesuit edition (emended and corrected), based on the text of the third London edition of the Principia. This version is valued for its excellent annotations and copious commentary, which is nearly the same length as the Principia itself. It contains Newton's Dedication to the Royal Society; Prefaces to the first, second and third editions and Roger Cotes's Preface. In addition, the Jesuits' edition of the Principia is prized for the inclusion of the important treatises on the theory of the tides: Daniel Bernoulli's Traite sur le Flux et Reflux de la Mer, Colin MacLaurin's De Causa Physica Fluxus et Refluxus Maris, and Leonardo Euler's Inquisitio Physica in causam Fluxus ac Refluxus Maris. These three works gained the prize given by the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1724 for resolving tidal problems relating to the theory of gravity. They represent the most significant discovery concerning tidal mechanics between the publication of the Principia and the discoveries of Laplace. An excellent and wide-margined set. [Babson, 31; Gray, 14; Wallis, 14]. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFR Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57367826071927,"sku":null,"price":5995.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/files\/SAM_3612_d4217971-e3f5-42ba-a3bc-9324427c1a73.jpg?v=1786406668","url":"https:\/\/rarebooksboutique.com\/products\/isaac-newton-draft","provider":"MFR Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}