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First edition of Newton's collected works, edited and introduced by the Pisa alumnus Giovanni Salvemini da Castiglione. The edition contained twenty-six works which, while having appeared previously, were not easily accessible, from Newton's mathematical works and optical lectures, which were greatly influential and laid the foundations of modern science, to his philological essays on history and theology. It thus became a major tool in the dissemination of Newton's science and a major publication in the history of science.
The first volume, mathematical papers, contains De analysi (1711), Methodis fluxionum (1736), De quadratura (1704), Enumeratio curvarum (1704), Methodus differentialis (1711), and excerpts from Newton's correspondence with John Collins, John Wallis, Henry Oldenburg, and Abbe Conti. The second volume, philosophical papers, includes De mundi systemate (1731), Lectiones opticae (1729), De natura acidorum (1736), Scala graduum caloris (1701), and his papers from the Philosophical… Read More

First edition of this account of trips to Norway, the Outer Hebrides, Skye, and Sweden undertaken by the Countess of Norbury (1876-1966), handsomely illustrated with photographic plates as well as colour reproductions from the author's original sketches.8vo, pp. 160, text in black and red; with frontispiece and 9 plates; some discolouring to half-title, occasional light foxing; overall very good in original light blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in darker blue, original pictorial dust jacket (a little dusty, with a few short tears at head repaired to verso).