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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 Quaestiones contains notes from Newton's thorough reading of Descartes, Walter Charlton's translation of Gassendi into English, Galileo Galilei's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Robert Boyle, Thomas Hobbes, Kenelm Digby, Joseph Glanvill and Henry More, and others. These were set down under 45 section headings which he used ...
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended is a work of historical chronology written by Sir Isaac Newton, first published posthumously in 1728. [1] Since then it has been republished. The work, some 87,000 words, represents one of Newton's forays into the topic of chronology , detailing the rise and history of various ancient kingdoms ...
Four full English translations of Newton's Principia have appeared, all based on Newton's 3rd edition of 1726. The first, from 1729, by Andrew Motte, [ 3 ] was described by Newton scholar I. Bernard Cohen (in 1968) as "still of enormous value in conveying to us the sense of Newton's words in their own time, and it is generally faithful to the ...
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 ]
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 ...
Composed in 1669, [4] during the mid-part of that year probably, [5] from ideas Newton had acquired during the period 1665–1666. [4] Newton wrote And whatever the common Analysis performs by Means of Equations of a finite number of Terms (provided that can be done) this new method can always perform the same by means of infinite Equations.
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 ...