The Principia (Great Minds Series)
by Andrew Motte, Isaac Newton
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Author: Andrew Motte, Isaac NewtonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-06
ISBN: 0879759801
Number of pages: 465
Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Book Review: ONE OF THE INDISPENSABLE "CLASSICS" IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Summary: 5 Stars
Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, whose Principia (published in 1687) founded classical mechanics, and described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion.
"I have in this treatise cultivated mathematics so far as it regards philosophy.... (G)eometry is founded in mechanical practice, and is nothing but that part of universal mechanics which accurately proposes and demonstrates the art of measuring."
"The propositions here demonstrated are adapted to the true constitution of the Earth.... For gravity ... decreases in its progress from the superficies of the Earth; upwards in a duplicate ratio of the distances from the centre of the earth; downwards in a simple ratio of the same."
At the beginning of Book III, he states, "In the preceding Books I have laid down the principles of philosophy, principles not philosophical, but mathematical; such, to wit, as we may build our reasonings upon in philosophical inquiries.... It remains that, from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World."
He concludes the book on the note, "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being ... This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God.... The Supreme God is a being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect.... It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God ... God is a living, intelligent, and powerful Being; and, from his other perfections, that he is supreme, or most perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, his duration reaches from eternity to eternity; his presence from infinity to infinity; he governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done.... He is utterly void of all body and bodily figure, and can therefore neither be seen, nor heard, nor touched; nor ought he to be worshipped under the representation of any corporeal thing. We have ideas of his attributes, but what the real substance of any thing is we know not."
Summary of The Principia (Great Minds Series)
Translated into English by Andrew Motte in 1729, this book is a complete volume of Newton's mathematical principles relating to natural philosophy and his system of the world. Newton, one of the most brilliant scientists and thinkers of all time, presents his theories, formulas and thoughts. Included are chapters relative to the motion of bodies; motion of bodies in resisting mediums; and system of the world in mathematical treatment; a section on axioms or laws of motion, and definitions.Scientists Books
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