Third edition, largest paper presentation issue, printed on Superfine Royal thick paper; only fifty copies were issued.

"This edition was the last published during the author's lifetime and the basis of all subsequent editions. It was edited by Henry Pemberton, M.D., F.R.S., and contains a new preface by Newton and a large number of alterations, the most important being the scholium on fluxions, in which Leibnitz had been mentioned by name. This had been considered an acknowledgement of Leibnitz's independent discovery of the calculus.”--Babson 13.

"The Principia is generally described as 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 univ...[ Read more ]

Third edition, largest paper presentation issue, printed on Superfine Royal thick paper; only fifty copies were issued.

"This edition was the last published during the author's lifetime and the basis of all subsequent editions. It was edited by Henry Pemberton, M.D., F.R.S., and contains a new preface by Newton and a large number of alterations, the most important being the scholium on fluxions, in which Leibnitz had been mentioned by name. This had been considered an acknowledgement of Leibnitz's independent discovery of the calculus.”--Babson 13.

"The Principia is generally described as 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 law. The Principia provided the great synthesis of the cosmos, proving finally its physical unity." --Printing And The Mind Of Man 161.

科學史上最重要的著作，對牛頓運動定律和萬有引力理論作了解釋。