Newton's System of the World : A Note on the Identity of the Translator

Cohen I. Bernard , “Newton's System of the world: Some textual and bibliographical notes”, Physis, xi (1969), 152–66.

Cajori F. , “The translator of Newton's ‘System of the world’”, Nature, cxxiv (1929), 513; idem, Sir Newton's Isaac “Mathematical principles of natural philosophy” and his “System of the world” (Berkeley, Calif., 1934), 679–80 (note 57).

Cohen I. Bernard , introduction to facsimile reprint of 1731 edn of Newton's A treatise of the system of the world (London, 1969), p. xii.

Peter and Wallis Ruth , Newton and Newtoniana, 1672–1975: A bibliography (Folkestone, England, 1977), 18.

Op. cit. (ref. 1), 166. I am grateful to Professor Cohen for calling the alternative version to my attention.

National union catalog: Pre-1956 imprints (London, 1975), cdxvii, 471.

The original version is held by the following libraries in North America: U. of British Columbia, U. of Pennsylvania, U. of Wisconsin, Columbia U., U. of Chicago, U. Calif. Los Angeles, Yale U., Huntington Lib., U. of Michigan, McGill U., U. of Oklahoma. The corrected version is held by: Mass. Inst. Technology, Princeton U., U. of Delaware, Harvard U., New York Public Lib., Yale Medical School Lib., Stanford U., U. of Chicago. In Europe the original version is held by Birmingham Ref. Lib., Cambridge U., King's Coll. Cambridge, Trinity Coll. Cambridge, Burnley Pub. Lib., U. Aberdeen, Glasgow U., St Andrew's U., British Library, Roy. Soc. Lib., Science Museum Lib., U. of London, Durham U., Mansfield Coll. Oxford, Bodleian Lib. Oxford, Christ Church Coll. Oxford, Reading U., Leeds U., and Mittag-Leffler Institut (Djursholm, Sweden), whereas the corrected version is held by: British Lib., Univ. Coll. London, and St John's Coll. Cambridge.

A copy of this inscription was provided to me by P. Beker of the University of London Library, to whom I am most grateful.