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Feb 5, 2016 · Newton's principles describe acceleration, deceleration, and inertial movement; fluid dynamics; and the motions of the earth, moon, planets, and comets. A great work in itself, the Principia also revolutionized the methods of scientific investigation.
Feb 5, 2016 · This authoritative, modern translation by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, the first in more than 285 years, is based on the 1726 edition, the final revised version approved by Newton; it...
- Isaac Newton, Julia Budenz
- Univ of California Press, 2016
- illustrated, reprint
- I. Bernard Cohen, Anne Whitman
The Principes Mathematiques de la Philosophie Naturelle, the Principia translated into French by Madame La Marquise du Chastellet. This is a delightful translation, and more down to earth than Motte's version, with less extra waffle and more common sense extra words to help it along.
Dec 20, 2007 · Newton clearly intended the work to be viewed in this way when in 1686 he changed its title to Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, in allusion to Descartes's most prominent work at the time, Principia Philosophiae.
Jul 5, 2017 · Translated by I. Bernard Cohen, Anne Whitman, and Julia Budenz, this new authoritative modern English translation is the first to see print in 285 years and is based on the 1726 final revised version which Newton himself approved.
Feb 5, 2016 · Bibliographic information. In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the...
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Section I in Book I of Isaac Newton’s Philosophiˆ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is reproduced here, translated into English by Andrew Motte. Motte’s translation of Newton’s
