For instance, he once stuck a long sewing needle (bodkin) into his eye socket between the eye and bone and recorded the colored circles and other visual effects he saw. Newton is justly most famous for his Principia and the co-invention of calculus, but he also had a longstanding interest in optics. Collectors and rare book dealers love a good tale of rediscovery, especially one which came to light-quite literally in this case-in the way this one did." DiLaura has described his discovery as 'a once-in-a-collector’s-lifetime event,' and it really is. "When DiLaura bought this copy more than 20 years ago from an English rare book dealer in West Sussex, neither buyer nor seller had any idea of its history. “It’s becoming increasingly rare for an author’s own copy of a book of this magnitude to fly under the radar for so many years," said Pom Harrington, owner of Peter Harrington Rare Books, which is selling the tome.
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