📚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 **Prominent Scottish mathematician's personal library sells for £800k**

"_Highlights of the sale included Stirling's own exceptionally rare first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's ANALYSIS Per Quantitatum SERIES, FLUXIONES, AC DIFFERENTIAS, which sold for £100,800, and Stirling's own copy of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, generally considered to be the most important scientific book ever published, which sold for £42,840._"

🔗 https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25568603.scottish-mathematicians-personal-library-sells-800-000/.

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