Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World /

Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newton, Isaac (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Other Authors: Cajori, Florian, 1859-1930 (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb, Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Crawford, R. T (Russell Tracy), 1876- (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Motte, Andrew, -1734
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
Edition:Includes reproduction of the title page of the first edition of the "Newton' Principia", London, 1687. Editor's note to the present revision signed: R. T. Crawford., Reprint 2020
Subjects:
Dictionaries
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Editor's Note to the Present Revision
  • TITLE PAGE OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE Principia
  • PRINCIPIA
  • PRINCIPIA
  • Definitions
  • AXIOMS, OR LAWS OF MOTION
  • Book One. 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 Two. THE MOTION OF BODIES
  • 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
  • VIII. Motion propagated through fluids
  • IX. Circular motion of fluids
  • Book Three. SYSTEM OF THE WORLD
  • RULES OF REASONING IN PHILOSOPHY
  • PHENOMENA
  • PROPOSITIONS
  • THE MOTION OF THE MOON'S NODES
  • GENERAL SCHOLIUM
  • THE SYSTEM OF THE WORLD
  • AN HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY APPENDIX

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