translated from Spanish: They find a strange manuscript by Isaac Newton

A copy of the first edition of Isaac Newton’s groundbreaking book that exposes his three laws of movement and which became the basis of modern physics was discovered in a library on the French island of Corsica.
Vannina Schirinsky-Schikhmatoff, director of conservation at the Fesch public heritage library in Ajaccio, explained that she discovered a copy of this 17th-century work while studying an index by library founder Lucien Bonaparte, one of the Napoleon’s brothers.
The director explains:
“I found the Holy Grail in the master bedroom, hidden in the upper shelves.
The roof has a small damage, but inside it is in excellent condition, this is the cornerstone of modern mathematics.”
The text is named Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, something like Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, and was first published by Newton in 1687.
As we all know Sir Isaac was inspired by the fall of an apple from a tree in his garden in Grantham, England, an act that led him to create the classical laws of gravity, movement and optics.
English translations were later published, but the original editions are still appreciated by collectors.
Schirinsky-Schikhmatoff says:
“A Latin edition sold for $3.7 million at an auction held by Christie’s a few years ago, and that’s the one in Ajaccio’s library.”
It is not the first rare find in Fesch’s library since an in-depth review of his catalogue a few years ago. In 2018, Schirinsky-Schikhmatoff unveiled a Thesaurum Hyeroglyphicorum study of Egyptian hieroglyphy dating back to 1610, some 200 years before FrenchMan Champollion Jean-Francois deciphered parts of the Rosetta Stone.

Original source in Spanish