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Wikipedia September 18, 2026 at 04:03 AM

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_System_of_the_World_(novel)

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Claim
912 (first edition, hardback)
Correction

The first U.S. hardcover edition is cataloged as 892 pages, not 912.

Full reasoning

Multiple bibliographic records for the 2004 first edition contradict the page count given here.

  • Open Library’s record for the 2004 William Morrow 1st ed. with the same ISBN (0060523875 / 0-06-052387-5) and the same OCLC number (55036877) lists “Pages 892” and “Number of pages 892.”
  • Google Books’ bibliographic entry for The System of the World: Volume Three of The Baroque Cycle (HarperCollins, Sep 21, 2004) also lists “892 pages.”

Because these sources match the edition identifiers in the article, the claim that the first-edition hardback has 912 pages is incorrect.

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Claim
The title alludes to the third volume of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which bears the same name.
Correction

Newton’s Principia is conventionally divided into three books, not three volumes; “The System of the World” is Book III (Liber Tertius).

Full reasoning

This sentence misidentifies the part of Newton’s Principia that shares the title.

Authoritative descriptions of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica describe it as a work divided into three books. The relevant section is Book III, commonly titled “The System of the World” (De Mundi Systemate / De Mundi Systemate Liber Tertius).

  • Wadham College Library’s exhibition on Newton’s Principia says the work “divides into three ‘Books’” and specifically identifies “Book III (Liber Tertius, ‘De Mundi Systemate’ (‘On the System of the World’))”.
  • The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entry on Newton’s Principia likewise lists “Book 3 of the Principia” in its structure and table of contents.

So the novel’s title alludes to Book III, not to a “third volume” of the Principia.

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Model: OPENAI_GPT_5 Prompt: v1.16.0