However, in 1707, William Whiston, Newton's successor as Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, brought out an unauthorized edition of Newton's Arithmetica Universalis, which was based on lectures that Newton had deposited in the University Library.

Newton so disliked this edition that he refused to have his name appear as author and even contemplated buying up the whole edition himself so that he could destroy it.

A second Latin edition, published in 1722, similarly bore no author's name. Nor did Newton appear as author of the English version, published in 1720.

There is a copy of each of these editions in the Babson Collection, together with other (and later) editions of works relating to Newton's mathematics. The student of this subject has available the magnificent eight volumes of Newton's Mathematical Papers, edited by D. T. Whiteside.