The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica took Newton two years to write. It was the culmination of more than 20 years of thinking. It outlined his own theory of calculus, the three laws of ...

Newton published what is generally acknowledged to be the greatest scientific book ever written, the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. The book, which described Newton's theories on ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth ... Math' [Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 1686-7)]. With his left hand he points to a scroll with a mathematical ...

Halley's report was duly recorded in the minutes, and he was urged to push Newton to publish his little work as soon as possible. The Principia was not an easy book to read in Newton's day ...

He then looks at Newton’s 'Principia Mathematica', before concluding that science is about simplifying the complex world around us, creating controllable and repeatable experiments to test ...

Meanwhile another man took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to explain how he is reading Newton's Principia Mathematica and has since concluded that people on the social media have low IQs.

In this episode Simon Schaffer, Professor of History of Science at the University of Cambridge, visits three events pivotal to the genesis of Isaac Newton's paradigm-shattering book the Principia ...

This year marks the Bicentennial, 2024-2025, of Lafayette and his farewell tour, “Guest of the Nation”, which took place August 15, 1824-September 7, 1825. To commemorate the occasion, the LaGrange ...

But according to a philosopher of language and mathematics ... in the original 1729 English translation of Newton's Latin ...