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NEWTON, I. Opuscula Mathematica, Philosophica et Philologica. Collegit partimque Lat. vertit ac rec. J. Castillioneus. Lausanne, Geneva, M.M. Bousquet, 1744. 3 vols. (8), XXXVIII, 420; (2), VI, 423, (1 blank); VI, 566, (2) pp. W. engr. vign. w. portr. of Newton on 3 ti-pp., ti-pp. printed in red and black, num. arithmetical exercises and tables in text, sev. full-p. and 2 fold., and num. geometrical, astronomical, optical and perspectival figs. and ills. on 64 fold. engr. plates. 4°. Cont. blind tooled vellum w. raised bands. (Vellum a bit soiled/stained & a bit worn on the edges in places, small wormholes in outer blank margin at the end of vol. 3 (and a few pp. of vol. 2), a bit browned/foxed in places, but a good and complete set).

First collected edition of the mathematical, philosophical and philological treatises by Isaac Newton (1642-1727), one of the greatest scientists of history. The collection contains 26 of the smaller works by the author, each with their own separate title. Several works were translated into the Latin for the present edition, and an explanatory preface and short biography of Newton were added by the editor. The collected works were planned for eight volumes, but the present three volumes of Newton's "Opuscula" are complete in themselves and mostly found separate. The essays are arranged according to subjects, the first volume containing Newton's mathematical essays, illustrated with 28 folding engraved plates. The philosophical treatises to which the second volume is devoted, mainly consist of Newton's "Optical Lectures", which were originally delivered in Latin at Cambridge in 1669, 1670, and 1771, and first published at London in 1729. They are richly illustrated with 28 folding engraved plates, and teach on all aspects of the falling and breaking of light, perspective and colours. These lectures laid the basis for modern science and for the science of art or perspective. The third volume then contains Newton's philological works, mainly historical essays, including a chronicle of ancient history, illustrated with 4 folding engraved plans of the temple of Salomo and other ancient holy places. Each separate work or essay is preceeded by its own title and the date of its first publication. At the end an extensive index is added. - Gray, pp. 2-4; Babson 9; Wallis, 2; Poggendorff II, 279; this title not in the Honeyman Coll.

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