PRINCIPIA 17 



Soc. | A New Edition, | (with the Life of the Author ; and a 

 Portrait, taken from the Bust in | the Royal Observatory at 

 Greenwich) carefully revised and corrected by | W. Davis ; | Author 

 of the " Treatise on Land Surveying," the " Use of the Globes," | 

 Editor of the " Mathematical Companion," &c. &c. &c. | In Three 

 Volumes. | London : | Printed for H. D. Symonds, No. 20, Pater- 

 noster Row. | 1803. | Printed by Knight & Compton, Middle 

 Street, Cloth Fair. | 8vo. [24 



Collation: Vol. I. Portrait, J. Allen delin 1 ., E. Scriven sculp 4 ., [London, 

 Published Nov. 10, 1802, by H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row], 

 Title; Dedication to the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal, 

 by Wm. Davis ; To the Reader by W. Davis, London, January, 1803 ; 

 Andrew Motte's Dedication to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart, vii, viii ; New- 

 ton's Preface to the first edition of the Prinripia, with extracts from 

 those to the second and third editions, and extracts from Roger Cotes's 

 Preface, ix xxxij Life of Newton, xxxiii Ix + i 211+ Index, 

 4 pp. 25 Plates : Plate I xxv., W. Newman sc., 27 Widcgate Street, 

 Bishopsgate. 



Vol. II. Title + pp. 1321 + Index, 10 pp. 19 Plates: Plate I xix. 

 i Table to face p. 278, and folding table to face p. 300. 



Vol. III. Title ; Contents (of the System of the World), iii vi + System 

 of the World, pp. i 82 ; Emerson's Short Comment on the Principia, 

 83 J 75; Emerson's Defence of Newton, 177 192; Machin's Laws 

 of the Moon's Motion, 193 231. Plates at pp. 4, 16, Plate i p. 95, 

 ii 101, in 130, iv 162, v 174, and 2 at end of the volume. 



A memoir of William Davis is in the Dictionary of National Biography. 



New Edition. London : | Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 

 Paternoster- 1 Row ; and Davis and Dickson, St. Martin's Le 

 Grand. | 1819. | Printed by J. Compton, Middle Street, Cloth 

 Fair, London. | 3 vols. 8vo. [25 



