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Newton for Beginners, republished as Introducing Newton, is a 1993 graphic study guide to the Isaac Newton and classical physics written and illustrated by William Rankin. The volume, according to the publisher's website, "explains the extraordinary ideas of a man who [...] single-handedly made enormous advances in mathematics, mechanics and optics," and, "was also a secret heretic, a mystic ...
It contains 11 propositions, labelled as 'theorems' and 'problems', some with corollaries. Before reaching this core subject-matter, Newton begins with some preliminaries: 3 Definitions: 1: 'Centripetal force' (Newton originated this term, and its first occurrence is in this document) impels or attracts a body to some point regarded as a center.
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (English: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) [1] often referred to as simply the Principia (/ p r ɪ n ˈ s ɪ p i ə, p r ɪ n ˈ k ɪ p i ə /), is a book by Isaac Newton that expounds Newton's laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation.
J. A. Lohne, "Isaac Newton: the rise of a scientist, 1661—1671" Notes and records of the Royal Society, vol 20 (1965) pp 125–139. [1] Never at rest: a biography of Isaac Newton, by Richard S. Westfall, Cambridge University Press, 1980 ISBN 0-521-23143-4; Westfall, Richard S. “The Foundations of Newton’s Philosophy of Nature.”
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727). Principes mathématiques de la philosophie naturelle ([Reprod. en fac-sim.]) Isaac Newton ; [trad. de l'anglois par feue Madame la marquise Du Chastellet]. 1759. Software used: Bibliothèque nationale de France: Conversion program: iText 1.4.8 (by lowagie.com) Encrypted: no: Version of PDF format: 1.4: Page size: 622. ...
The General Scholium (Latin: Scholium Generale) is an essay written by Isaac Newton, appended to his work of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known as the Principia. It was first published with the second (1713) edition of the Principia and reappeared with some additions and modifications on the third (1726) edition. [1]
Arithmetica Universalis ("Universal Arithmetic") is a mathematics text by Isaac Newton. Written in Latin, it was edited and published by William Whiston, Newton's successor as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. The Arithmetica was based on Newton's lecture notes.
All of Newton's known writings on alchemy are currently being put online in a project undertaken by Indiana University: "The Chymistry of Isaac Newton" [179] and summarised in a book. [ 180 ] [ 181 ] Newton's fundamental contributions to science include the quantification of gravitational attraction, the discovery that white light is actually a ...