Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World (Principia.)

by Andrew Motte, Isaac Newton, SIR ISAAC NEWTON

Book Overview

I consider philosophy rather than arts and write not concerning manual but natural powers, and consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy.In the third book I give an example of this in the explication of the System of the World. I derive from celestial phenomena...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520009274
• ISBN13: 9780520009271
• Release Date: April 1960
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.