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Title: The Principia: The Authoritative Translation
Condition: New
Description: In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues to account for many of the phenomena of the observed world, and Newtonian celestial dynamics is used to determine the orbits of our space vehicles. This authoritative, modern translation by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, the first in more than 285 years, is based on the 1726 edition, the final revised version approved by Newton; it includes extracts from the earlier editions, corrects errors found in earlier versions, and replaces archaic English with contemporary prose and up-to-date mathematical forms. Newton's principles describe acceleration, deceleration, and inertial movement; fluid dynamics; and the motions of the earth, moon, planets, and comets. A great work in itself, the Principia also revolutionized the methods of scientific investigation.It set forth the fundamental three laws of motion and the law of universal gravity, the physical principles that account for the Copernican system of the world as emended by Kepler, thus effectively ending controversy concerning the Copernican planetary system. The translation - only edition of this preeminent work is truly accessible for today's scientists, scholars, and students.
Author: Isaac Newton
Contributor: I. Bernard Cohen (Translated by), Anne Whitman (Translated by), Julia Budenz (Translated by)
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
EAN: 9780520290747
Format: Paperback
Genre: Science Nature & Math
ISBN: 9780520290747
ISBN-10: 0520290747
Item Height: 254mm
Item Length: 178mm
Item Weight: 1043g
Item Width: 28mm
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date: 05/02/2016
Subtitle: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Translator: I. Bernard Cohen, Anne Whitman, Julia Budenz
Release Year: 2016

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