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A library assistant was going round the shelves carrying an enormous bucket, taking down books, glancing at them, restoring them to the shelves or dumping them into the bucket. At last he came to three large volumes which Russell could recognize as the last surviving copy of Principia Mathematica. He took down one of the volumes, turned over a ...
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]
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One of the surviving copies of De Motu was made by being entered in the Royal Society's register book, and its (Latin) text is available online. [4] For ease of cross-reference to the contents of De Motu that appeared again in the Principia, there are online sources for the Principia in English translation, [5] as well as in Latin. [6]
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 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 .
Pemberton was employed by Newton to superintend the third edition of the ‘Principia.’ The new edition, which appeared in 1726, had a preface by Newton, in which Pemberton is characterised as ‘vir harum rerum peritissimus.’ In 1728 he published ‘A View of Sir I. Newton's Philosophy.’
The former two books were aimed exclusively at professional mathematicians, while the latter book was intended for a larger audience, covering the history of mathematics and its philosophical foundations. [36] Principia Mathematica in particular is regarded as one of the most important works in mathematical logic of the 20th century.