Vol. I (of 2) only. [38], 320 pp. Illustrated with 25 folding copper-engraved plates. 19.5x12 cm (7¾x4¾"), period full calf, spine lettering in gilt. First Edition in English. First volume of the first edition in English of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia, his masterwork, described in Printing and the Mind of Man 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... 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 Darwin's Origin of Species. [Newton] is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time and the founder of mathematical physics" (PMM 161). Lacking the frontispiece, which is sometimes bound into the second volume, and often lacking altogether. Babson 20; Norman 1587. Ownership signature of John Whitehart on top of title page.
Vol. I (of 2) only. [38], 320 pp. Illustrated with 25 folding copper-engraved plates. 19.5x12 cm (7¾x4¾"), period full calf, spine lettering in gilt. First Edition in English. First volume of the first edition in English of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia, his masterwork, described in Printing and the Mind of Man 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... 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 Darwin's Origin of Species. [Newton] is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time and the founder of mathematical physics" (PMM 161). Lacking the frontispiece, which is sometimes bound into the second volume, and often lacking altogether. Babson 20; Norman 1587. Ownership signature of John Whitehart on top of title page.
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