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Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Newton'S System of the World - Isaac Newton) (in English)
Isaac Newton
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Andrew Motte
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Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Newton'S System of the World - Isaac Newton) (in English) - Motte, Andrew ; Newton, Isaac
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Synopsis "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Newton'S System of the World - Isaac Newton) (in English)"
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton and translated into English by Andrew Motte, added to Newton's System of The World. Philosophi Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Latin for Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), often referred to as simply the Principia, is a work in three books by Isaac Newton, in Latin, first published 5 July 1687. After annotating and correcting his personal copy of the first edition, Newton published two further editions, in 1713 and 1726. The Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically). SINCE the ancients (as we are told by Pappus), made great account of the science of mechanics in the investigation of natural things: and the moderns, laying aside substantial forms and occult qualities, have endeavoured to subject the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics, I have in this treatise cultivated mathematics so far as it regards philosophy. The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration; and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name. But as artificers do not work with perfect accuracy, it comes to pass that mechanics is so distinguished from geometry, that what is perfectly accurate is called geometrical, what is less so, is called mechanical.
