OPUSCULA MATHEMATICA, PHILOSOPHICA ET PHILOLOGICA. Collegit partimque Latine vertit ac recensuit Joh. Castillioneus.

Lausannae & Genevae, apud Marcum-Michaelem Bousquet & Socios, 1744.. 3 volumes, complete set, FIRST EDITION 1744, Latin text, edited by Johann Castillioneus. 4to, 245 x 195 mm, 9¾ x 7¾ inches, half-title in Volume I, title pages printed red and black, each with engraved vignette with portrait of Newton, 64 engraved folding plates, Volume III LACKING ONE ORIGINAL PLATE at page 244 (Description of 1 Gate of People's Court), FACSIMILE INSERTED, engraved headpieces and pictorial initials, 2 folding tables, pages: (8), xxxviii, 420; vi, 423; vi, 566 including index, bound in modern half speckled calf over marbled sides, raised bands, blind rules and gilt lettering to spines, all edges speckled, modern black endpapers. VOLUME I: small inscription on half-title dated 1792 and neatly crossed out, very small light brown stain in top left corner of title page, occasional very light foxing to margins, 7 gatherings lightly browned, college stamp in 1 margin; VOLUME II: tiny worm track in inner margin of title page, occasional very light foxing, college stamp in 1 margin, a few pages lightly browned; VOLUME III: 6 gatherings lightly browned, occasional very light foxing, tiny chip or hole to 10 margins (not consecutive, due to paper flaw, not affecting text). Bindings tight and firm. A very good clean set. First collected edition of the mathematical, philosophical and philological treatises by Newton edited with a biography by Johann Castillioneus, and containing some items not easily available elsewhere. These 3 volumes formed part of a hybrid set of 8 volumes of Newton's works consisting of the 3 volumes of the Geneva Principia (1739-42), the 1740 Optice, Castillioneus's own edition of the Arithmetica universalis (1761), and his 3 volumes of Opuscula which are usually found separate. Castillioneus (1708-1791) was born in Tuscany, studied mathematics and law at Pisa, then moved to Switzerland where he remained until 1751. He spent 13 years at the University of Utrecht before finally settling in 1764 at the Berlin Academy of Frederick the Great. All the works in the Opuscula are in Latin whatever the original language and each separate work or essay is preceded by its own title page mostly with the date of its first publication. Contents of the 3 volumes as follows: 1) Mathematica: De analysi (1711); Methodus fluxionum (1736); De quadratura (1706); Enumeratio (1706); Methodus differentialis (1716); exerpts from correspondence with John Wallis, John Chamberlayne, Abbe Conti, John Collins and Henry Oldenburg, including the texts of the Epistola prior and the Epistola posterior as they appeared in Commercium epistolicum. 2) Philosophica: De mundi systemate (1731); Lectiones opticae (1729); papers from the Philosophical Transactions (numbers 80-5, 86, 88, 96, 97, 110, 121, 128 on the subject of light and colour); De natura acidorum (1736); Scala graduum caloris (1701). 3) Philologica: Brevia Cronica (1728); Chronologia veterum regnorum emendata (1728); Paper on Chronology from PT (1725); Ad Danielis profetae vaticinia (1737); Dissertatio de sacro judaeorum cubito ((1737). See Gjertsen, The Newton Handbook page 98 and Babson, Catalogue of the Newton Collection, page 8 No. 9. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. A HEAVY SET WHICH WILL REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAGE.