Newton's Principia, First American Edition (New York, Daniel Adee, 1846), in Andrew Motte's English translation
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Methodology
- What it is
- Newton's Principia, First American Edition (New York, Daniel Adee, 1846), in Andrew Motte's English translation
- Provenance
- A copy held by the University of California, Berkeley, Mathematics-Statistics Library (call number QA803 .A4 1846, barcode C037272162), digitised by the Internet Archive. The file's encoding and page count suggest archive.org item newtonspmathema00newtrich, contributed by the University of California Libraries; Berkeley's record for the same call number is archive.org item 100878576. This file was not taken from archive.org directly. It was downloaded from a Princeton University course page, https://web.math.princeton.edu/~eprywes/F22FRS/newtonprincipia.pdf
- How it was obtained
- Downloaded on 1 November 2026 from the Princeton address above, as recorded in the file's download metadata. Deposited exactly as downloaded, without re-encoding, cropping or OCR. 52,514,825 bytes, SHA-256 4e77cefbcdec22085a815ccfa3bde665af135cf5fb7ccb0c6047f46c851c65ff.
- Chain of custody
- Printed in New York in 1846. A handwritten inscription records the copy as a gift to the "Math Dept." It was held by Berkeley's Mathematics-Statistics Library, later the Astronomy/Mathematics/Statistics Library in 100 Evans Hall, as a non-circulating book, with due-date stamps from 1992 to 1999 and a handwritten rebinding note. The Internet Archive scanned it. A copy of that scan was hosted on a Princeton University course page, from which it was downloaded for this archive.
- Known gaps
- The scan was not checked page by page. The title page, front matter and closing index are present, and the printed pagination runs to 581. The PDF has 594 pages against 600 images in the Internet Archive record, so a few images, probably blank or calibration pages, may be absent. Library stamps, perforations and handwriting belong to the scanned copy; the donor's name in the gift inscription is not confidently legible. Any text layer in the PDF has not been checked for accuracy. Which Internet Archive item this file derives from is inferred, not confirmed by comparing checksums.
Context
Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica was first published in Latin in London in 1687. It set out the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation, and derived from them the motions of the planets, the moon and the tides. This record preserves a scan of the first American edition, published in New York by Daniel Adee in 1846. It reproduces Andrew Motte's English translation of 1729, revised and corrected for this edition, together with Newton's System of the World and a life of Newton by N. W. Chittenden, who dedicated the edition to the teachers of the Normal School of the State of New York. The scanned copy belonged to the University of California, Berkeley. Its library stamps, handwritten inscription and circulation slip are part of what is preserved here. Readers relying on the text should compare it with the Latin original and with modern translations: Motte's translation and the 1846 revisions are interpretations of Newton's words, not the words themselves.
Record status
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