Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
ROHAULT, JACQUES. Physica. Latine vertit, recensuit, & adnotationibus ex . . . Isaaci Newtoni philosophia maximam partem haustis, amplificavit & ornavit Samuel Clarke, S.T.P. Editio quarta. 27 folding engraved plates. [32], 495, [17] pages. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, spine darkened, front joint cracked and bonded; contents clean. London: James Knapton, 1718

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Clarke's Latin translation of Rohault's 1671 Traite de Physique first appeared in 1697. "Making use of his familiarity with Newtonian physics, Clarke appended to his edition a series of notes that had the novel effect of turning a Cartesian treatise into a vehicle for disseminating the ideas of Newton. His translation remained the major text at Cambridge for over forty years"--DSB III, 294.