Comments on: Bibliographia

Bibliographia

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:05:05 -0800

Today Cambridge University offered a complete free digital archive of the personal papers of Sir Isaac Newton, including the Principa Mathematica and his first published research paper. The archives join a number of efforts to open original works of scientific greatness to the world:

Charles Darwin's entire personal library, complete with annotations and handwritten marginalia, digitized, indexed, and searchable, part of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (previously)
Mapping The Republic of Letters and Electronic Enlightenment, wonderful sites showing the communication and social connections of Enlightenment writers.

Newton's original works are handily supplemented by The Newton Project, showing the man's insertions and deletions to his own work.

By: Ironmouth

Ironmouth — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:17:24 -0800

They would offer only old, out of date research for free.

By: selenized

selenized — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:39:48 -0800

Just in time for Newtonmas

By: oddman

oddman — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:41:35 -0800

Electronic Enlightenment seems to be behind a pay wall.

By: oddman

oddman — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:42:42 -0800

And so does Mapping the Republic?

By: brenton

brenton — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:31:53 -0800

There sure are a lot of different styles they used for the same letters. At least five dies for the letter "S," or am I wrong in thinking this was printed with a movable-type letterpress method.

By: yeolcoatl

yeolcoatl — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:47:12 -0800

No pdf download?

By: Uppity Pigeon #2

Uppity Pigeon #2 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:05:28 -0800

Who? Is he the guy who invented the neutron?

By: three blind mice

three blind mice — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:15:43 -0800

I noticed that Samuel Pepys (he of the famous diary) was shown as the "imprimatur" to Principia. A short Google search revealed that he was at the time President of the Royal Society. "If he had no other claims to distinction his name would have been perpetuated by this prominent association with a world-famous book. "

By: rahnefan

rahnefan — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:52:21 -0800

No cut and paste bibles?

By: carter

carter — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:45:44 -0800

In addition, the Newton MSS Project, based at the University of Sussex, has digital transcripts of Newton's manuscripts, as well as a collection of background videos that discuss Newton's ideas.