{"65473":{"#nid":"65473","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rare Text Finds a Home at Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn honor of Tech\u2019s 125th birthday year, we\u2019re partnering with Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine to highlight a piece of Tech history. This issue\u2019s topic: one of the most important scientific books ever written.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe following excerpt is number 4 on the list \u201c125 Pieces of Tech History,\u201d featured in the September\/October 2010 issue of Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine: \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Library added a leather-bound, second-edition copy of Isaac Newton\u2019s \u201cPhilosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica\u201d to its rare-book collection in 1999. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA librarian told the Alumni Magazine at the time that it was one of only 750 copies printed by Cambridge University Press in 1713. First and third editions of the work, in which Newton presented the law of universal gravitation and three laws of motion, also are owned by the library.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn honor of Tech\u2019s 125th birthday year, we\u2019re partnering with Georgia \nTech Alumni Magazine to highlight a piece of Tech history. This issue\u2019s \ntopic: one of the most important scientific books ever written.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In honor of Tech\u2019s 125th birthday year, we\u2019re partnering with Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine to highlight a piece of Tech history. This issue\u2019s topic: one of the most important scientific books ever written."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2011-04-08 14:30:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:30","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65474":{"id":"65474","type":"image","title":"Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica","body":null,"created":"1449176831","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:07:11","changed":"1475894579","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:59","alt":"Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica","file":{"fid":"193227","name":"newton.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/newton.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/newton.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2846828,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/newton.jpg?itok=pAl0_M8c"}}},"media_ids":["65474"],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12718","name":"Isaac Newton"},{"id":"12719","name":"Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amelia.pavlik@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAmelia Pavlik\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}