Frank AmariNov 24, 2023
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Newton's own annotated copy of Principia Mathematica.

The Cambridge papers of Sir Isaac Newton, including early drafts and Newton’s annotated copies of Principia Mathematica have been added to UNESCO’s International Memory of the World Register. The chief attractions in the Cambridge collection are Newton’s own copies of the first edition of the Principia (1687), covered with his corrections, revisions and additions for the second edition.

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Nov 24, 2023 at 3:25pmWeb
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https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/sir-isaac-newtons-cambridge-papers-added-to-unescos-memory-of-the-world-register
Sir Isaac Newton’s Cambridge papers added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register

The Cambridge papers of Sir Isaac Newton, including early drafts and Newton’s annotated copies of Principia Mathematica – a work that changed the history of

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Show threadChirayu  Nov 24, 2023
@gutenberg_org cc @cafkafk "He" sees all and has receipts ;)
Show threadIzzyNov 24, 2023
@gutenberg_org I'm citing a translation of the Principia in my dissertation. Sadly, Harvard style prescribes that you reference a translated book by the year of the translation rather than by the year the original work was published in, so I do not get to say "(Newton, 1687)".
Show threadKlaus SteinNov 25, 2023
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Perhaps one should specify that there is another famous Principia Mathematica (225 years later) and that Newton's opus is the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
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Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica was first published on 5 July 1687. On the other hand Principia Mathematica is a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics written by mathematician–philosophers Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell and published in 1910, 1912, and 1913.

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