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By Sir Isaac Newton,I. Bernard Cohen,Anne Whitman,Julia Budenz

ISBN-10: 0520290879

ISBN-13: 9780520290877

ISBN-10: 0520290887

ISBN-13: 9780520290884

In his enormous 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, identified familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton specified by mathematical phrases the rules of time, strength, and movement that experience guided the improvement of contemporary actual technological know-how. Even after greater than 3 centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics maintains to account for lots of of the phenomena of the saw global, and Newtonian celestial dynamics is used to figure out the orbits of our area vehicles.

This authoritative, sleek translation by way of I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, the 1st in additional than 285 years, relies at the 1726 variation, the ultimate revised model authorized via Newton; it contains extracts from the sooner versions, corrects blunders present in prior models, and replaces archaic English with modern prose and updated mathematical forms.

Newton's rules describe acceleration, deceleration, and inertial circulate; fluid dynamics; and the motions of the earth, moon, planets, and comets. a good paintings in itself, the Principia also revolutionized the equipment of medical research. It set forth the basic 3 legislation of movement and the legislations of common gravity, the actual ideas that account for the Copernican method of the area as emended through Kepler, therefore successfully finishing controversy in regards to the Copernican planetary system.

The illuminating consultant to Newton's Principia by I. Bernard Cohen makes this preeminent paintings really obtainable for brand new scientists, students, and students.

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