[FOM] First edition of The Russell-Whitehead Principia

[Edwin Mares]

Victoria University does not have a copy, but Rob Goldblatt owns a copy
(which he was given as a gift!). University of Alberta library owns a
copy. You should ask John Slater at U of Toronto how many copies he has
and where they came from. 
Ed

Edwin Mares
Philosophy
Victoria University of Wellington
P.O. Box 600
Wellington, New Zealand
64+4-463-5368
Fax: 64+4-463-5370
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Sent: Saturday, 6 September 2008 4:37 p.m.
To: Foundations of Mathematics
Cc: a.hazen at philosophy.unimelb.edu.au
Subject: [FOM] First edition of The Russell-Whitehead Principia

I have been visiting Allen Hazen in Melbourne, and we were discussing
the 
delightful book of Owen Gingrich in which he recounts his quest for the 
destination of all the copies of the first edition of the Copernicus
{\sl 
De Revolutionibus}. The book was partly a result of Gingrich's
irritation 
at a remark of`Koestler's to the effect that nobody ever read it. For us

FOM-ers an interesting parallel question is the question of who actually

read the first edition of PM. We have an easier task than Gingerich
because 
we know what the print run of PM was (The print run of de Revolutionibus
is 
not known). We know Quine read it, and we know Hilbert read it....

   So what Allen and I are asking you all to do is this. Visit the
library 
of your institution and see if it has a copy of the **first** edition.
If 
it has, please email Allen and me with the details. If it was bequeathed
to 
the library by an earlier owner please tell us about him/her. Perhaps
you 
even own a copy of the first edition yourself...?


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