1731 London Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy Newton Plates Gravesande VOL2 

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 "Mathematical Elements of Physics was easily the most influential book of its kind, at least before 1750. It was a larger, better-argued, and more philosophical work than most of its predecessors; 

The fourth  Edition Corrected. 7.5" x 4.5"). xi, 285pp + index. 25 fold out copper plates. Written in Latin and translated into English. The second volume comprises Book III, Part 1- Concerning Fire; Part II- Concerning the Inflexion, Refraction and Reflection of Light; Part II- Of Opacity and Colours. Book IV, Part I- Of the System of the World. Part II- The Physical Causes of the Celestial Motions. Text and fold out plates good shape few foxing of age

Missing cover boards 

NO cover

Bound tight

Few foxing of age

No tear or holes 

9+285+ index page size: 7.5-4.5 inches 

Sir Isaac Newton FRS (/ˈnjuːtən/;[6] 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27[1]) was an English physicist andmathematician (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first published in 1687, laid the foundations for classical mechanics. Newton made seminal contributions to optics, and he shares credit with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for the development of calculus.

Newton's Principia formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation, which dominated scientists' view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. By deriving Kepler's laws of planetary motion from his mathematical description of gravity, and then using the same principles to account for the trajectories of comets, the tides, theprecession of the equinoxes, and other phenomena, Newton removed the last doubts about the validity of theheliocentric model of the Solar System. This work also demonstrated that the motion of objects on Earth and of celestialbodies could be described by the same principles. His prediction that Earth should be shaped as an oblate spheroidwas later vindicated by the measurements of Maupertuis, La Condamine, and others, which helped convince mostContinental European scientists of the superiority of Newtonian mechanics over the earlier system of Descartes.

Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that aprism decomposes white light into the many colours of the visible spectrum. He formulated an empirical law of cooling, studied the speed of sound, and introduced the notion of a Newtonian fluid. In addition to his work on calculus, as a mathematician Newton contributed to the study of power series, generalised the binomial theorem to non-integer exponents, developed a method for approximating the roots of a function, and classified most of the cubic plane curves.

Newton was a fellow of Trinity College and the second Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He was a devout but unorthodox Christian,[7] and, unusually for a member of the Cambridge faculty of the day, he refused to take holy orders in the Church of England, perhaps because he privately rejected the doctrine of theTrinity. Beyond his work on the mathematical sciences, Newton dedicated much of his time to the study of biblical chronology and alchemy, but most of his work in those areas remained unpublished until long after his death. In his later life, Newton became president of the Royal Society. Newton served the British government as Warden and Master of theRoyal Mint.

Willem Jacob 's Gravesande (26 September 1688 – 28 February 1742) was a Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher, chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics. As professor of mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy at Leiden University, he helped to propagate Isaac Newton's ideas in Continental Europe.

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