The Principia: The Authoritative Translation
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
$29.08
- Paperback
616 pages
- Release Date
5 February 2016
Summary
In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues to account for many of the phenomena of the observed world, and Newtonian celestial dyna…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520290747 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520290747 |
| Author: | Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen, Anne Whitman, Julia Budenz |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 616 |
| Release Date: | 5 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 1.04kg |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 178mm x 254mm |
Isaac Newton
I. Bernard Cohen (1914-2003) was Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He was the author of Benjamin Franklin’s Science, Interactions, and Science and the Founding Fathers.
Anne Whitman (1937-1984) was coeditor (with I. Bernard Cohen and Alexander Koyre) of the Latin edition, with variant readings, of the Principia.
Julia Budenz, author of From the Gardens of Flora Baum, is a multilingual classicist and poet.
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