One hundred years ago this month, Cambridge University Press in England published a book that lost money, that according to one of its two co-authors was probably read in full by only six people, but ...

Hundreds more copies may still be out there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A pioneering book of science theory published by Sir ...

A systematic search for copies of the first edition of Newton's Principia (1687) unearthed copies in at least 27 countries, yielding new insights about how people engaged with the famous book. In a ...

Latin text; introd., pref., and notes in German with French translation.

Thieves have stolen a rare first edition of Isaac Newton's Principia from a library in St Petersburg. Principis or "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" was published in 1687 and is one of ...

Only one other original leather-bound copy of Newton's Principia has been sold at auction in the past 47 years. A rare European first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica. (Photo: ...

• In 1687, Isaac Newton published his "Principia Mathematica," a three-volume work setting out his mathematical principles of natural philosophy. • In 1865, the Secret Service Division of the U.S.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A bound copy of Sir Isaac Newton's seminal book on mathematics and science was sold for $3.7 ...