One of the most valuable scientific documents in history changed hands this week, when an autographed Isaac Newton manuscript of revisions to three sections of the first edition of the Philosophiae ...
Isaac Newton‘s monumental book, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, was published July 5, 1687. Newton had developed the foundational ideas for the work as early as 1666, when an outbreak of ...
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"The history and purpose of the edition are explained at length in the companion volume, Introduction to Newton's Principia [by I. B. Cohen] published simultaneously with these two text volumes" ...