Isaac Newton - Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

<p>Rara prima edizione di Amsterdam, ristampa della seconda edizione inglese edita a Cambridge nel 1713; Cfr. <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Babson</span>, <em>Supplement </em>4: &laquo;The first Amsterdam reprint of the second edition of the <em>Principia </em>is a fine example of bookmaking&raquo;; <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Hall </span>43, 87; <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Jorink-Maas,</span> 27 e <em>passim</em>; <span style="font-variant: small-caps">McKitterick</span> II,&nbsp;107&nbsp;&laquo;The new edition, a page for page resetting on paper inferior to that from Cambridge, and with a new set of woodcut figures, appeared in Amsterdam in 1714&raquo;;&nbsp;la seconda edizione inglese era stata stampata in un numero cos&igrave; esiguo di copie che un editore tedesco realizz&ograve; questa&nbsp;edizione rivale per soddisfare la domanda del mercato; e fu questa edizione pirata olandese ad essere recensita dal <em>Journal des savants </em>nel 1715 e dal <em>Journal de Tr&eacute;voux </em>nel 1718<em> (</em><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Shank</span>, 122).&nbsp;I <em>Principia Mathematica </em>di Newton, nella prima edizione, sono considerati &laquo;the greatest work in the history of science. Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed, Newton explained the underlying universal laws. The &quot;Principia&quot; provided the great synthesis of the cosmos, proving finally its physical unity. Newton showed that the important and dramatic aspects of nature that were subject to the universal law of graviation could be explained, in the mathematical terms, within a single physical theory. [...]&nbsp; [...] The second edition of &quot;Principia&quot; was not published until 1713&raquo;.&nbsp;&laquo;Following the pioneer researches of Galileo in the study of motion, and its Mathematical analysis and the important contributions of Descartes (vedi lotto 442)&nbsp;[...], the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century culminated in the massive achievements of Newton in dynamics and gravitational astronomy&raquo;.&nbsp; (cfr. <em>PMM </em>161).</p>