Who Said Nobody Read Isaac Newton?

'It’s a myth that legendary works in science aren’t read.'

Caleb Scharf at Nautilus.

"What seems to be emerging from this new census is a picture in which Newton’s great work was actually widely, and immediately, read and discussed, perhaps even enjoyed, by both his intellectual peers and a larger population."

(via Arts & Letters Daily)

See Newton, Nathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, and Optics, in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 34, and (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 32.