# The second edition of Principia is published with Cotes's preface

Date: 1713

## The fact

In 1713 the second edition of Principia appeared at Cambridge, edited by Roger Cotes. It is a dated revision, not the 1687 book and not the 1726 third edition. Isaac Newton's documented role is: He revised the book. Roger Cotes edited at Cambridge and wrote the anti-Cartesian preface. The University press printed.

## Context

Cotes died in 1716. Bentley pushed Cambridge printing. The General Scholium against hypotheses dates from this edition. Sharing editorship with Cotes is required. The setting of The second edition of Principia is published with Cotes's preface is the public file around 1713-07-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of The second edition of Principia is published with Cotes's preface. Naming Isaac Newton does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1713-07-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

SEP independently discusses the second edition and General Scholium. Gutenberg is a later English access carrier. Official carrier: Project Gutenberg — Principia public English carrier of the work later revised in 1713 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28233; Project Gutenberg). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — later Principia editions (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/newton/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Project Gutenberg — Principia public English carrier of the work later revised in 1713 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28233; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

Improving education-access path of medium weight. Complex. High confidence on 1713. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

## What is established and what is not

Established: the second edition was published in 1713. Not established: that the General Scholium is a unique theology statute. Established: a sourced public record of The second edition of Principia is published with Cotes's preface under 1713-07-01.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat Cotes's preface as Newton's only voice. Do not twin 1713 print with the Commercium date. Mixed effects of The second edition of Principia is published with Cotes's preface are separate paths.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Isaac Newton: https://factrail.ai/people/isaac-newton

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28233
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/newton/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/newton-principia-2ed-1713