Isaac Newton's ‘greatest intellectual stride’ strolls into a Swiss saleroom

The books sale at Koller (25% buyer’s premium) in Zurich on September 17 was topped at SwFr250,000 (£237,250) by a first edition of the book Einstein described as “perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make”.

This copy of Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (1687) was of particular i…

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