First edition Principia Mathematica! And other Isaac Newton treasures | with Rob Iliffe

Wadham College, University of Oxford has a number of early Isaac Newton publications. Some were published during Newton's lifetime and some shortly after. Presenting the collection in this video is Rob Iliffe, Professor of History of Science at the University of Oxford. Prof Iliffe has written multiple works on Newton, including A Very Short Introduction to Newton (OUP 2007) and Priest of Nature: the Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton, (OUP 2017), and co-editing The Cambridge Companion to Isaac Newton, 2nd ed. (CUP, 2016).

Prof Iliffe takes the viewer through Wadham's collection, placing it in the context of Newton's life and accomplishments, starting with our own first edition copy of Principia Mathematica, published in 1687. The video was carefully edited by Wadham's own librarian, Tim Kirtley, with accompanying images and illustrations. Enjoy.

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00:00 Introduction
01:25 Newton Biographical Background
05:30 Principia Mathematica
12:36 Book One (Principia Mathematica)
14:10 Books Two & Three (Principia Mathematica)
17:07 "It sold out fairly quickly"
18:15 Wadham College and its collection
25:47 Third edition and more