This edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia is the first edition that enables the reader to see at a glance the stages of evolution of the work from the completion of the manuscript draft of the first edition in 1685 to the publication of the third edition, authorized by Newton, in 1726.
A photographic reprint of this final version, the present edition exhibits on the same page the variant readings from the seven other texts. This design allows the reader to see all the changes that Newton introduced and to determine exactly how the last and definitive edition, published a few months before Newton’s death, grew from earlier versions.
A series of appendices provides additional material on the development of the Principia; the contributions of Roger Cotes and of Henry Pemberton; drafts of Newton’s preface to the third edition; a bibliography of the Principia, describing in detail the three substantive editions and all the known subsequent editions; an index of names mentioned in the third edition; and a complete table of contents of the third edition.
- ISBN10 0674664752
- ISBN13 9780674664753
- Publish Date 1 January 1972 (first published December 1967)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 25 October 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Edition 3rd ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 968
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780674664753