据外媒报道，本周，一份历史上最具价值的科学文献易手。艾萨克·牛顿的亲笔签名手稿在伦敦佳士得拍卖行以170.25万英镑（折合人民币约为1531.43万元）的价格拍出，这份手稿修改了《Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica》初版的三个部分。 牛顿的《Principia》可以 ...

The first edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica was sold for $3.7 million at Christie’s on Wednesday, becoming the most expensive printed science book ever sold at auction—[insert joke ...

The North American Indian was produced in 40 volumes between 1907 and 1930 by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) and was one of the most expensive undertakings in the history of book production and the most ...

THE great achievement of the authors of “Principia Mathematica” is to have deduced mathematics by strict symbolic reasoning from a small number of logical propositions. This was previously attempted ...

A first-edition copy of Isaac Newton’s groundbreaking book laying out his three laws of motion, which became the foundation for modern physics, has been found at a library on the French island of ...

THIS work contains some thousands of propositions, each, with its proof, expressed in a shorthand so concise that if they were all expanded into ordinary language, the room taken up would be ten times ...