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The Principia is written in Latin and comprises three volumes, and was authorized, imprimatur, by Samuel Pepys, then-President of the Royal Society on 5 July 1686 and first published in 1687. [2] [3] The Principia is considered one of the most important works in the history of science. [4]
While preparing a revised edition of his Principia, Newton attributed his law of gravity and his first law of motion to a range of historical figures. [35] [36] Despite these qualifications, the standard theory of the history of the Scientific Revolution claims that the 17th century was a period of revolutionary scientific changes.
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]
The Principia Mathematica (often abbreviated PM) is a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics written by the mathematician–philosophers Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell and published in 1910, 1912, and 1913.
Physicist Stephen Hawking similarly called Principia "probably the most important single work ever published in the physical sciences". [200] Lagrange called Principia "the greatest production of the human mind", and noted that "he felt dazed at such an illustration of what man's intellect might be capable". [201]
Robert Hooke published his ideas about the "System of the World" in the 1660s, when he read to the Royal Society on March 21, 1666, a paper "concerning the inflection of a direct motion into a curve by a supervening attractive principle", and he published them again in somewhat developed form in 1674, as an addition to "An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations". [6]
Newton's Principia Mathematica, published by the Royal Society in 1687 [1] but not available widely and in English until after his death, is the text generally cited as revolutionary or otherwise radical in the development of science. [2]
The second edition was published under the title Principia Discordia or How The West Was Lost in a limited edition of five copies in 1965. [4] The phrase Principia Discordia , reminiscent of Isaac Newton 's 1687 Principia Mathematica , is presumably intended to mean Discordant Principles , or Principles of Discordance .