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This Introduction serves a dual purpose: it is a guide to the Principia and a biography of the work. It provides an analytic history of how Newton came to write the book, the printing of the several editions, the critical receptions given to each edition, andabove allhow Newton continually corrected, revised, and enlarged the text over four decades.
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Cohen I. Bernard
I. Bernard Cohen, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus, at Harvard University, is one of the founders of the modern study of the history of science.
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- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0674461754
- ISBN 13 9780674461758
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages410
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