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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]
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 .
The Black Iron Prison was an effort to create an updated, modern book that would function as Principia Discordia did when released. The collaborators stated that "while the original Principia Discordia holds important messages and philosophies, we wondered if some of the humor and language might be dated and lost on a younger generation of ...
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.
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]
Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher.He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, [2] which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology.
His ‘Scheme for a course of Chymistry to be performed at Gresham College’ appeared in 1731. Two courses of his lectures were published by his friend James Wilson—the first, in 1771, on chemistry; the second, in 1779, after Pemberton's death, on physiology. In addition to these and some treatises left in manuscript, Pemberton wrote:
Kerry Wendell Thornley (April 17, 1938 – November 28, 1998) [1] [2] was an American author. He is known as the co-founder (along with childhood friend Greg Hill) of Discordianism, [1] [2] in which context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst or simply Lord Omar. [1]