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First Day Cover: Sir Isaac Newton
PHILATELY
envelope; postage stamp
Godwin, Sarah; Royal Mail
Europe: United Kingdom, England
1987-03-24
paper; card
overall: 115 x 215 mm

First Day Cover celebrating 300th anniversary of publication of Sir Isaac Newton's 'The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy' (Principia). Illustration of Newton's prism experiment. Four stamps (34p The System of The World, 31p Opticks, 22p Motion of Bodies in Ellipses, 18p Philosopiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Postmarked Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire.


1999.232

Collected, 1987



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