London: Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, 1706. First Latin edition of the Opticks, the extremely rare first issue with Ss1 in its original state (cancelled in almost all copies). Of Newton’s three greatest contributions to science – his theory of gravity, his theories of light and colour, and the invention..... More
Item #6373
Cambridge; London: Typis Academicus; Benjamin Tooke, 1707. First edition of Newton’s treatise on algebra, or ‘universal arithmetic,’ his “most often read and republished mathematical work” (Whiteside). “Included are ‘Newton’s identities’ providing expressions for the sums of the ith powers of the roots of any polynomial equation, for any integer i...... More
Item #4639
London: Benji & Sam. Tooke, 1722. Second edition, but the first authorised and edited by Newton (probably with the assistance of John Machin – see below), of his treatise on algebra, or ‘universal arithmetic,’ his “most often read and republished mathematical work” (Whiteside, Papers V, p. xiv). “Included are ‘Newton’s..... More
Item #5823
London: J. Tonson, J. Osborn & T. Longman, 1728. First edition of Newton’s rarest book — the discarded first draft of what would become Book III of Principia, posthumously published in the year following his death — and an extraordinary association copy in contemporary panelled calf, inscribed on the front..... More
Item #6610
![Item #5802 La methode des fluxions [translated by Georges Louis Le Clerc]. Sir Isaac NEWTON](https://sophiararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5802.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660217402)
Paris: De Bure l’aine, 1740. First edition in French of Newton’s first exposition of his fluxional calculus, translated with a long and important preface by the celebrated naturalist Comte de Buffon. Originally written in 1671, in Latin, this was Newton’s first comprehensive presentation of his method of fluxions which, according..... More
Item #5802
London: William Innys for the Royal Society, 1729. First edition of the complete text, in the original Latin, of Newton’s inaugural lectures as the second Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, and the first publication of his lectures on his new mathematical science of colour, including his discovery of the..... More
Item #6375
London: Various printers to the Royal Society, 1665-1732. First edition of the first 426 issues, an unbroken run from March 1665 to December 1732, of the world's oldest continuous scientific journal and the single most important record of the first announcement and communication of scientific discoveries and inventions (PMM). It..... More
Item #6441