NEWTON, Isaac. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica... Tomus Primus [-Tertius]. Coloniae Allobrogum [Génève], Cl. & Ant. Philibert, 1760

3 tomes in 4 vols. 4to, mm. 250x190; Contemporary full vellum binding, gilded titles and ornaments on the spine; Vol. I, T. I, pp. XXXII, 548; Vol. 2, T: II, pp. [8], 422, 2 bl. Vol. 3, T. III Pars I, pp. [8], XXVIII, 376; Vol. 4, T. III Continuatio, pp. [1], 376-536, [2], [4 numb. V-VIII], 537-703, 1 bl. Titlepage in red and black, many geometrical illustrations within the text. Signature of ancient owner on Titlepages.

The second Jesuit Edition, based on the first of 1739-42, but with several fixes and improvements. Bussotti e Pisano: ”This edition corrects some mistakes (especially print-mistakes) of the first edition. It is in three volumes corresponding to the three books of the Principia (Newton, 1760).” Corredata da un imponente apparato critico, la Jesuit Edition è una fonte importantissima riguardo le idee di Newton sulla geometria e sulla fisica matematica: i curatori, Thomas Le Seur e François Jacquier, furono coadiuvati dal matematico e astronomo svizzero Jean-Louis Calandrini, che scrisse le note e i commenti di maggior rilievo. il Traité sur le Flux et Reflux de la Mer, di Daniel Bernoulli; De Causa Physica Fluxus et Refluxus Maris di Colin Maclaurin; Inquisitio Physica in causam Fluxus et Refluxus Maris, di Leonard Euler. Babson: “Important pieces... These represent all that was done on the theory of tides between the publication of Newton's Principia and the investigations of Laplace.” Gray, n. 14; Babson 31; Wallis 14. Paolo Bussotti, Raffaele Pisano, On the Jesuit Edition of Newton’s Principia. In SciRes, http://www.scirp.org/journal/ahs. The Lot is offered with a valid export licence.