by WilliamH.Donahue (Translator), Dana Densmore (Author)
Presents Newton's "Principia" not only to modern scholars of history of science, but also to nonspecialist undergraduate students of humanities. This title moves from Newton's definitions and axioms through the essential propositions, as Newton himself identified them, to the establishment of universal gravitation and elliptical orbits.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 589
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Green Lion Press
Published: 01 Oct 2003
ISBN 10: 1888009241
ISBN 13: 9781888009248