NEWTON, Sir ISAAC. Philosophiae naturalis Principia mathematica...Editio Secunda Auctior et Emendatior. Cambridge, 1713. Numerous woodcut diagrams in text. 4to, contemporary blind-panelled calf, rebacked with original backstrip laid down, corners repaired; lacking folding table (opposite p. 465) otherwise internally very clean. Second edition, one of about 750 copies according to Babson. Babson 12. "Richard Bentley, Master of Trinity College, was instrumental in bringing out this second edition, which was edited by Roger Cotes, F.R.S. In his important preface, Cotes attacks the Cartesian philosophy, then still in vogue in the universities, and refutes an assertion that Newton's theory of attraction is a causa occulta. It contains a second preface by Newton and considerable additions, the chapters on the lunar theory and the theory of comets being much enlarged"--Babson.
NEWTON, Sir ISAAC. Philosophiae naturalis Principia mathematica...Editio Secunda Auctior et Emendatior. Cambridge, 1713. Numerous woodcut diagrams in text. 4to, contemporary blind-panelled calf, rebacked with original backstrip laid down, corners repaired; lacking folding table (opposite p. 465) otherwise internally very clean. Second edition, one of about 750 copies according to Babson. Babson 12. "Richard Bentley, Master of Trinity College, was instrumental in bringing out this second edition, which was edited by Roger Cotes, F.R.S. In his important preface, Cotes attacks the Cartesian philosophy, then still in vogue in the universities, and refutes an assertion that Newton's theory of attraction is a causa occulta. It contains a second preface by Newton and considerable additions, the chapters on the lunar theory and the theory of comets being much enlarged"--Babson.
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