FINDING that all editions of the Principia are out of print ... edition as finally revised by Newton himself; attending, of course, to the Corrigenda, but wisely abstaining from the insertion ...

The Principia was not an easy book to read in ... By flinging gravity across the void, Isaac Newton united physics and astronomy in a single science of matter in motion. When we step back and ...

But what, then, are we to make of the fact that the greatest scientific hero of them all, that model of geometric rationality, Isaac Newton ... the world in his Principia of 1687. In half a century, ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe ... The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica took Newton two years to write. It was the culmination of more than 20 years of ...

ISAAC NEWTON was born on Christmas Day ... When at the age of forty-four his “Principia” was going through the press, he represented the University of Cambridge in its struggle against ...

The son of a farming family, Sir Isaac Newton was born in Lincolnshire in ... physics and astronomy. His book Principia, published in 1687, is regarded as the greatest scientific book ever written ...

Isaac Newton was one of the leading figures of the ... the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. The book, which described Newton's theories on celestial motion and gravity, established ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth ... the invention of the reflecting telescope (1668), and his revelation in his Principia of the mathematical ordering of the ...

When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed ... in the original 1729 English translation of Newton's Latin Principia. Based on this translation, countless academics and teachers ...

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius and most enigmatic character in the history of science.” His three greatest discoveries — the theory of universal gravitation ...