The North American Indian was produced in 40 volumes between 1907 and 1930 by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) and was one of the most expensive undertakings in the history of book production and the most ...

The first edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica was sold for $3.7 million at Christie’s on Wednesday, becoming the most expensive printed science book ever sold at auction—[insert joke ...

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THE great achievement of the authors of “Principia Mathematica” is to have deduced mathematics by strict symbolic reasoning from a small number of logical propositions. This was previously attempted ...

This great astrophysicist strongly influenced our understanding of stellar objects, black holes, white dwarfs and conducted remarkable work on Newton’s seminal work titled Philosophiae Naturalis ...

"The history and purpose of the edition are explained at length in the companion volume, Introduction to Newton's Principia [by I. B. Cohen] published simultaneously with these two text volumes" ...

THIS work contains some thousands of propositions, each, with its proof, expressed in a shorthand so concise that if they were all expanded into ordinary language, the room taken up would be ten times ...