Math Book Sells for Record $3.7 Million (Or the Price of Like Two College Textbooks)
The first edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica was sold for $3.7 million at Christie’s on Wednesday, becoming the most expensive printed science book ever sold at auction—[insert joke about outrageous college textbook prices]. Albert Einstein described Newton’s seminal 1687 work as “perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make.”
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