22. A Comment on the 1999 Cohen-Whitman Edition of Newton's Principia

Preliminary note

In the year 1999, there appeared a new English edition of Newton's Principia, edited by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, preceded by "A Guide to Newton's Principia" by I. Bernard Cohen. In the "Preface" to his "Guide", Cohen invites the reader "to send to our publisher any suggestions for the improvement of our text as well as corrections of errors of fact or interpretation in the Guide." So in the year 2000 I sent four letters to The University of California Press, which I present in the following. To none of these letters did I ever receive an answer.

Letters to the Publisher