624 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 



OPTICS, continued: 

 Sir Isaac Newton's own corrected copy: 



12539 NEWTON (Sir Isaac, P.R.S.) OPTICKS, SECOND [FIRST OCTAVO] EDITION, 

 with Additions, with 12 folding plates, 8vo. old calf , joints neatly mended (FINE COPY) ; 

 with MS. corrections in Sir Isaac Newton's handwriting, 25. 



A. Bowyer for W. Innys, 1717 



Tke original issue of the second edition, and printed on strong paper. It is rare thus, most copies being of the second 

 issue of 1718. The mathematical tracts were left out in this and the following editions. 



The above copy is of great interest for having belonged to Sir Isaac Newton himself, who 

 has made additions and corrections (all verified to be in his hand-writing), which were wholly 

 or partly adopted in the later editions of the * Opticks '. They are : on page 70, line 20 : S^ is altered 

 into jjj^ (this correction was made in the 3rd Edition). Page 230, line 19 : -Ijji- is altered in text and written out on 

 margin q * (corrected in the 3rd Edition). Page 271, line 14: after 'plainest 1 is added on margin: 'upon the 



Chart, & removing the chart' (alteration not adopted). Page 275, line 15 : after ' second ' is added Ion margin : ' without 

 quicksilver in the same angle ' (addition not adopted). Page 334, line 11-12 : The passage : ' that side of the same Ray 

 which looks towards ' is struck out (correction not adopted). Page 342, line (5 : after ' Earth ' is added on 

 margin ' or 7f ' ; line 8 : 14 is altered in text into 15|, and on margin into 16J ; line 10 : ' 21, 28 or 35 ' is altered in text 

 into ' 22, 303, 38^ ', and on margin into ' 23, 30f, 38|' ; lines 12 and 13 : ' 70, 140, 210', is altered in text into ' 76f, 153-J, 

 230 ', and on margin into ' 80, 160, 238 ' (corrections adopted slightly modified in the 4th Edition). Page 30(3, 

 line 22 : ' height ' is struck out, and ' distance ' substituted for it on margin (correction made in the 4th Edition). Page 

 382, line 4 : after 'Benefactor' is added: 'as their ancestors did before they corrupted themselves. For the seven 

 Precepts of the Noachides were originally the moral Law of all nations ; & the first of them was to have but one supreme 

 Lord God & not to alienate his worship ; the second was not to profane his name ; & the rest were to abstain from blood 

 or homicide & from fornication (that is from incest adultery & all urilawfull lusts,) & from theft & all injuries, & to be 

 merciful even to bruit beasts, & to set up magistrates for putting these laws in execution. Whence came the moral 

 Philosophy of the ancient Greeks' (partly adopted in the third Edition, by adding after 'Benefactor': 'as their 

 Ancestors did under the Government of Noah and his Sons before they corrupted themselves '). 



12540 - SECOND ISSUE OF THE SECOND EDITION, with 12 folding plates, 8vo. old calf, or, old 

 calf, rebacked, 12s 6d W. andJ. Innys, 1718 



In this edition the number of queries at the end of the work is increased from 16 to 31, including the celebrated one 

 (No. 28) : ' Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which Light is supposed to consist in pression or motion propagated 

 through a fluid medium ? ... If it consisted in pression or in motion propagated either in an instant or in time, it would 

 bend into the shadow. For pression and motion cannot be propagated in a fluid in right lines beyond an obstacle which 

 stops part of the motion, but will bend and spread every way in the quiescent medium which lies beyond the shadow.' 

 Query 17 discusses the double refraction of Iceland spar. It also contains a new and interesting preface. 



' At the end of the 3rd book I have added some Questions. And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an essential 

 Property of Bodies, I have added one Question concerning its Cause, chusing to propose it by way of a Question, because 

 I am not yet satisfied about it for want of Experiments.' Advertisement II. 



12541 THIRD EDITION, corrected, with 12 folding plates, 8vo. old calf, or, old calf, neatly 



rebacked, 12$ apud eosdem, 1721 



This is a literal reprint of the foregoing edition, save fora few corrections and the addition of one passage in the last 

 sentence in the work referring'to Noah and his sons, as pointed out in the note to Newton's annotated copy of the second 

 edition (No. 12539, supra). 



12542 - FOURTH [FINAL] EDITION, corrected, with 12 folding plates, 8vo. old calf, or, old calf, 

 newly rebacked (RARE), 17s 6d William Innys, 1730 



This was the last edition revised by the Author. 'It was corrected by the Author's own hand, and left before his 

 Death with the Bookseller. ... It has been thought proper to make at the bottom of the Pages several Citations from 

 thence [Lections Opticacl, where maybe found the Demonstrations, which the Author omitted in these Opticks'. 

 Advertisement to this Fourth Edition. 



12543 OPTICE : sive de Reflex ionibua, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus et Coloribus Lucis Libvi 



III, Latine reddidit SAMUEL CLARKE, A.M. ; accedunt Tractatus II ejusdem Authoris de SPECIE- 

 BUS et MAGNITUDINE FIGURARUM CURVILLNEARUM; with 19 folding plates, 4to. contemporary 

 calf, newly rebacked (sound and clean copy) ; RARE, 1. 5s Londini, S. Smith <fc B. Walford, 1706 



12544 ANOTHER COPY, old panelled calf (joints cracked, and title and some II. somewhat 



stained), 18s Qd 



THE FIRST LATIN EDITION, translated by Newton's disciple DR. SAMUEL CLARKE, afterwards Rector of St. James's. 

 Westminster, whose alleged Arianism gave rise to so long a controversy. It was the first edition to contain Newton's 

 views on the double refraction of Iceland spar, and included six more queries than the English Edition of 1704. It 

 contains for the first time the celebrated one [No. 28] on the nature of light (v. note to No. 12540, supra). The translator 

 received 500. from Newton for his work. 



12545 EDITIO SECUNDA, auctior ; with 12 folding plates, 8vo. old calf (binding damaged), Gs 



ibidem, Gul. & Joh. Innys, 1719 



12546 A LARGE PAPER COPY, 4to. old calf, newly rebacked, 10* 6d 



Neither this nor the later editions contain the two mathematical treatises included in the edition of 1706. The queries 

 however are extended from 22 to 30. 



12547 - - EDITIO NOVISSIMA [TERTIA]; with vignette on title, and 12 folding plates, 4to. old caJf 

 gilt (some II. browned), 8s 6d Lausannw, 1740 



This edition has a dedication to Jean Bernoulli by the publisher, and is valuable for a copious index which it contains. 



TRANSLATED BY MARAT: 



12548 OPTIQUE de NEWTON, Traduction Nouvelle, faite par M * * [JEAN PAUL MARAT ; 



' L'Ami du Peuple ' ] sur la derniere Edition originale. Dediee au Roi [avec Preface], par M. 

 BEAUZEE, Editeur decet Ouvrage, Fun des Quarante de 1' Academic Francoise, etc. etc. ; with 21 

 folding plates, 2 vols. 8vo. old hf. calf (binding rubbed, but a sound and clean copy] ; RARE, 

 '1. 5s 



