A Western Kentucky University philosophy professor has led a team to create the first-ever searchable digital map of Newton's Principia Mathematica, funded through an NEH grant. Meanwhile, rare copies of the foundational 1687 text are surfacing at auction, with one first edition selling for $3.7 million and a census revealing hundreds of surviving copies.
·WKU-led team launches searchable digital map of Principia Mathematica as multi-institutional project
·First edition of Newton's opus sells for $3.7 million at auction
·Census discovers hundreds of surviving copies of the original Principia
·New scholarship explores Russell's logicism and the text's mathematical legacy
·Publishing costs and accessibility of Newton's foundational work under renewed scrutiny
drawn from Western Kentucky University, Daily Nous, Hyperallergic, Caltech · updated 756d ago