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Philosophica et Philologica. Tomus Primus [-Tertius].Lausanne & Génève, Marc-Michel Bousquet & Socios, 1744.
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Optice: Sive de Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus et coloribus Lucis, Libri Tres... Latine reddidit Samuel Clarke, S.T.P. Editio Novissima.Lausanne & Génève, Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1740.
7 Tomes bound in 4 vols. 4to, mm. 250x190;
Contemporary half calf and mabled paper, gilded titles on labels at the spine, marbled edges; Vol. I, Principia 1760, T. I, pp. XXXII, 548; T: II, pp. [8], 422, 2 bl. Vol. 2, Principia 1760, T. III, pp. [8], XXVIII, 376, [1] 376-536, [2], [4 numb. V-VIII], 537-703, 1 b. Vol. 3, Opuscula 1744,
T. I Mathematica, pp. [8], XXXVIII, 420, 28 copper plates out text and 2 tables out text;
T. II, Philosophica, pp. VI, 2 bl., [2], 423, 1 bl., 32 copper plates out text. Vol. 4, Opuscula,
T. III Philologica, pp. VI, 2 b., 566 [i.e. 562, Leaf 2L2v numb. “268 ad 272”], [2, last bl.], 4 copper plates out text + Optice 1740, pp. [4], XXXII, 363, [1], Frontispiece with portrait, Titlepage in red and black with copper Vignette, illustrated Headpiece and large Initials, 12 copper plates out text. stamp of extinct library on Titlepages.
IMPORTANT SET OF GENEVAN EDITIONS OF PRINCIPIA, the Opuscula and 'Optice. Gathered here as homogeneous, the works are attributable to the Jesuit Edition, named by bibliographers since, despite the editors of Principia belonged to the Order of the Minims, the text was adopted thus encoded in the major educational institutions of the Society of Jesus, as well that in all European universities. Regard the Principia, here in the second Jesuit Edition 1760, please note that Newtonian text were added, in the third volume, written several awards by the Académie des Sciences for the competition to be held this in 1724, Daniel Bernoulli, Colin MacLaurin , and Leonard Euler.
Bussotti e Pisano: “The SECOND ÉDITION of JE was printed in Colonia Allobrogum (Geneva) in 1760 by the publishing house Cl. and An. Philibert. This edition corrects some mistakes (especially print-mistakes) of theFIRST EDITION. It is in three volumes corresponding to the three books of the Principia (Newton, 1760).”• Regarding the Opuscula, we remember that it is the first collective edition of all the minor writings of the great scientist, number of XXVI, namely: XVI mathematical writings, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first philosophy and scientific writings; XXII to XXVI by the writings of antiquarian subject, chronological and prophetic.
Principia: Gray, n. 14; Babson 31; Wallis 14. Opuscula: Gray, n. 2; Riccardi, I, 297; Babson, n. 9. Cfr. Gjertsen, The Newton Handbook p. 98. Optice: Gray, n. 182; Babson 141; PMM 172. Cfr. Paolo Bussotti, Raffaele Pisano, On the Jesuit Edition of Newton’s Principia. Science and Advanced Researches in the Western Civilization, Published Online February 2014 in SciRes, http://www.scirp.org/journal/ahs.
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