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NEWTON, Sir Isaac]. -- [PEMBERTON, Henry (1684-1771)]. A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy . London: S. Palmer 1728.
NEWTON, Sir Isaac]. -- [PEMBERTON, Henry (1684-1771)]. A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy . London: S. Palmer 1728. 4 o (285 x 224 mm). Engraved vignette-title, 12 engraved folding plates, head- and tail-pieces and initials. (A few small marginal tears and stains, a bit thumbed.) Contemporary calf (rebacked to style, extremities scuffed). FIRST EDITION of Pemberton's explanation of Newtonianism, especially written for a general audience without mathematical training. The work remains one of the most important sources on Newton's later years, written by a close friend and one who was invited by Newton to edit the third edition of the Principia . In the list of subscribers Sir Isaac Newton is recorded as having ordered 12 books. Babson 98.