![Item #5962 Instauratio magna [Novum Organum]. Sir Francis BACON](https://sophiararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5962.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1702292541)
London: Joannem Billium, 1620. First edition, first issue, the Devonshire–Horblit–Garden copy, and one of approximately fifteen copies printed on large paper with the crown watermark. Published in October 1620 with Norton’s name in the colophon, the first issue is of considerable rarity in any paper; the large-paper state in the..... More
Item #5962
London: R. & J. E. Taylor, 1842. First edition, extremely rare offprint, of this seminal early work of photography, the invention of the world’s first photocopying process, ‘cyanotype,’ later called ‘blue-printing’; this remained by far the most important reprographic process for more than a century after the publication of Herschel’s..... More
Item #4782
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847. First edition, inscribed presentation copy, of Herschel’s greatest astronomical work, inscribed to the Captain of the ship that brought Herschel and his family back from South Africa. This is a monumental survey of the stars of the southern hemisphere, a complement to his father’s..... More
Item #5354
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