Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical principles of natural philosophy, and his System of the world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 (Author)
Corporate Author: Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Reading Library
Other Authors: Cajori, Florian, 1859-1930, Crawford, R. T (Russell Tracy), 1876-, Motte, Andrew, -1734 (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Latin
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1962
Berkeley : ©1962
Berkeley, 1962
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • I. The nation of bodies
  • II. The system of the world
  • V. 1. Ode / Edmund Halley ; translated / Leon J. Richardson
  • Prefaces to the first, second, and third editions
  • Definitions
  • Axioms, or laws of motion
  • Book I. The motion of bodies. I. Method of first and last ratios - II. Determination of centripetal forces - III. Motion of bodies in eccentric conic sections - IV. Determination of elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic orbits, from the focus given - V. Determination of orbits when neither focus is given - VI. Determination of motions in given orbits - VII. Rectilinear ascent and descent of bodies - VIII. Determination of orbits in which bodies will revolve, being acted upon by any sort of centripetal force - IX. Motion of bodies in movable orbits ; and the motion of the apsides - X. Motion of bodies in given surfaces ; and the oscillating pendulous motion of bodies - XI. Motion of bodies tending to each other with centripetal forces - XII. Attractive forces of spherical bodies
  • XIII. Attractive forces of bodies which are not spherical
  • XIV. Motion of very small bodies when agitated by centripetal forces tending to the several parts of any very great body
  • Book II. The motion of bodies (in resisting mediums). I. Motion of bodies that are resisted in the ratio of the velocity - II. Motion of bodies that are resisted as the square of their velocities - III. Motion of bodies that are resisted partly in the ratio of the velocities, and partly as the square of the same ratio - IV. Circular motion of bodies in resisting mediums - V. Density and compression of fluids ; hydrostatics - VI. Motion and resistance of pendulous bodies - VII. Motion of fluids, and the resistance made to projected bodies - VII. Motion of fluids, and the resistance made to projected bodies - VIII. Motion propagated through fluids - IX. Circular motion of fluids
  • V. 1. Ode / Edmund Halley ; translated / Leon J. Richardson
  • Prefaces to the first, second, and third editions
  • Definitions
  • Axioms, or laws of motion
  • Book I. The motion of bodies. I. Method of first and last ratios
  • II. Determination of centripetal forces
  • III. Motion of bodies in eccentric conic sections
  • IV. Determination of elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic orbits, from the focus given
  • V. Determination of orbits when neither focus is given
  • VI. Determination of motions in given orbits
  • VII. Rectilinear ascent and descent of bodies
  • VIII. Determination of orbits in which bodies will revolve, being acted upon by any sort of centripetal force
  • IX. Motion of bodies in movable orbits ; and the motion of the apsides
  • X. Motion of bodies in given surfaces ; and the oscillating pendulous motion of bodies
  • XI. Motion of bodies tending to each other with centripetal forces
  • XII. Attractive forces of spherical bodies
  • XIII. Attractive forces of bodies which are not spherical
  • XIV. Motion of very small bodies when agitated by centripetal forces tending to the several parts of any very great body
  • Book II. The motion of bodies (in resisting mediums). I. Motion of bodies that are resisted in the ratio of the velocity
  • II. Motion of bodies that are resisted as the square of their velocities
  • III. Motion of bodies that are resisted partly in the ratio of the velocities, and partly as the square of the same ratio
  • IV. Circular motion of bodies in resisting mediums
  • V. Density and compression of fluids ; hydrostatics
  • VI. Motion and resistance of pendulous bodies
  • VII. Motion of fluids, and the resistance made to projected bodies
  • VII. Motion of fluids, and the resistance made to projected bodies
  • VIII. Motion propagated through fluids
  • IX. Circular motion of fluids
  • V. 2. Book III. The system of the world (in mathematical treatment). Rules of reasoning in philosophy - Phenomena - Propositions - Motion of the moon's nodes - General scholium
  • The system of the world. System of the world - Appendix. Notes, historical and explanatory / Prepared by the reviser
  • V. 2. Book III. The system of the world (in mathematical treatment). Rules of reasoning in philosophy
  • Phenomena
  • Propositions
  • Motion of the moon's nodes
  • General scholium
  • The system of the world. System of the world
  • Appendix. Notes, historical and explanatory / Prepared by the reviser
  • v. 1. The motion of bodies
  • v. 2. The system of the world
  • v. 1. The motion of bodies--v. 2. The system of the world
  • v. 1. The motion of bodies
  • v. 2. The system of the world