据外媒报道,本周,一份历史上最具价值的科学文献易手。艾萨克·牛顿的亲笔签名手稿在伦敦佳士得拍卖行以170.25万英镑(折合人民币约为1531.43万元)的价格拍出,这份手稿修改了《Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica》初版的三个部分。 牛顿的《Principia》可以 ...
Cambridge University is putting the papers of Sir Isaac Newton online for the first time, including his own annotated copy of his greatest work, Principia Mathematica, with notes and calculations in ...
One hundred years ago this month, Cambridge University Press in England published a book that lost money, that according to one of its two co-authors was probably read in full by only six people, but ...
Rare European copy of key mathematics text is going under hammer at Christie’s in New York with record guide price A first edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica could become the most ...
One of the most valuable scientific documents in history changed hands this week, when an autographed Isaac Newton manuscript of revisions to three sections of the first edition of the Philosophiae ...
Isaac Newton’s own first edition copy of his book Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687) with handwritten corrections for the second edition (Wikimedia Commons) (Fun fact before we ...
Handwritten notes that show one of history's greatest scientific minds in action are going up for auction in London. Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy set out the laws of ...