For sale... science book Newton wrote during lockdown in 1660s
AN amazing example of what can be achieved working from home in a health crisis is up for auction – a book by scientist Sir Isaac Newton.
He wrote the original Latin version of Principia, regarded as one of the most significant works in history, while self- isolating from the Great Plague between 1665 and 1667.
Newton had been in Cambridge but moved back to his family’s home, Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, to keep his distance from the disease.
While studying there he struck upon findings which would change the world and compiled them all into the tome, published in 1687.
Now a 1729 first edition in English, entitled The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, is being sold by Dominic Winter Auctioneers.
The book is expected to fetch between £ 15,000 and £ 20,000 when it is auctioned next month by the firm based in Cirencester, Gloucs.
The manor is where Newton is said to have come up with the law of gravity after an apple fell from a tree.