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Title

Mathematical principles of natural philosophy / by Sir Isaac Newton. [Translated by Andrew Motte. Rev. by Florian Cajori] Optics / by Sir Isaac Newton. Treatise on light / by Christiaan Huygens. [Translated by Silvanus P. Thompson]

Author

Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727

Publication

Chicago : Encyclopædia Britannica, 1952.

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Additional Authors

• Motte, Andrew, -1734
• Cajori, Florian, 1859-1930
• Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916
• Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.

Description

xi, 619 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Great books of the Western World ; v. 34

Uniform Title

• Principia. English. 1952
• Great books of the Western world v. 34.

Alternative Title

• Principia. 1952
• Optics.
• Treatise on light.
• Newton ; Huygens
• Optics
• Treatise on light

Subject

• Mechanics > Early works to 1800
• Celestial mechanics > Early works to 1800
• Optics > Early works to 1800
• Wave theory of light > Early works to 1800
• Refraction, Double > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Early works

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Mathematical principles of natural philosophy: Book I: Method of first and last ratios -- Determination of centripetal forces -- Motion of bodies in eccentric conic sections -- Finding of elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic orbits from the focus given -- How the orbits are to be found when neither focus is given -- How the motions are to be found in given orbits -- Rectilinear ascent and descent of bodies -- Determination of orbits in which bodies will revolve, being acted upon by any sort of centripetal force -- Motion of bodies in movable orbits; and the motion of the apsides -- Motion of bodies in given surfaces; and the oscillating pendulous motion of bodies -- Motions of bodies tending to each other with centripetal forces -- Attractive forces of spherical bodies -- Attractive forces of bodies which are not spherical -- Motion of very small bodies when agitated by centripetal forces tending to the several parts of any very great body -- Book II: Motion of bodies (In resisting mediums): Motion of bodies that are resisted in the ratio of the velocity -- Motion of bodies that are resisted as the square of their velocities -- Motion of bodies that are resisted partly in the ratio of the velocities, and partly as the square of the same ratio -- Circular motion of bodies in resisting mediums -- Density and compression of fluids; hydrostatics -- Motion and resistance of pendulous bodies -- Motion of fluids and the resistance made to projected bodies -- Motion propagated through fluids -- Circular motion of fluids -- Book III: System of the world (In mathematical treatment): Rules of reasoning in philosophy -- Phenomena -- Propositions -- Motion of the moon's nodes -- General Scholium / Sir Isaac Newton -- Optics / Sir Isaac Newton -- Treatise on light / Christiaan Huygens.

OCLC

• 15354506
• SCSB-10364325

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library