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Two works bound in one volume. [xxviii], 484, [7]; [viii] 344 pp. One folding plate in first work; thirteen folding plate in second work; title pages in red and black with engraved vignettes. (4to) 10x8, early calf-backed boards, red morocco spine label. First Amsterdam Printing of the Second Edition of the Principia and Third Edition in Latin of the Arithmetica.

First Amsterdam printing of the second edition of the Principia, entirely reset and corrected from the 1713 Cambridge edition. Third Edition in Latin of Arithmetica. First published in 1707 by William Whiston in an edition that did not meet Newton's approval, a second edition was published by Newton in 1722 and two English translations were published in 1720 & 1728. Newton's Principia Mathematica is described in Printing and the Mind "the greatest work in the history of science." Covering Newton's famous three laws of motion as well as his treatises on fluid motion and celestial mechanics under the principle of gravitation. The Arithmetica contains Newton's lectures on algebraic notation, arithmetic, the relationship between geometry and algebra, and the solutions of polynomial equations delivered while Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University (1669-1702). PMM 161 (Principia); Babson, Supplement, p. 4 and Babson 204; Wallis 11 and 279.