Newton's Principia, the Central Argument: Translation, Notes, Expanded Proofs

by Dana Densmore and Densmore Dana

Book Overview

Makes the great adventure of Principia available not only to modern scholars of history of science, but also to nonspecialist undergraduate students of humanities. It moves carefully from Newton's definitions and axioms through the essential propositions, as Newton himself identified them, to the establishment of universal gravitation and elliptical orbits. The guidebook unfolds what is implicit in Newton's words as he himself would have filled in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888009233
• ISBN13: 9781888009231
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Green Lion Press
• Length: 589 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.9" x 9.7"