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Sir isaac newton, frs, was an english physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist. His principia mathematica written in latin, and first published in 1687, in which he develops a physics of the solar system to compete with the vortex theory of rene descartes, is arguably his most important work, for it developed the physics still taught in classrooms and used in. Royal society head librarian keith moore and explains to brady. It is one of greatest book known ever and i like it. How a book about fish nearly sank isaac newtons principia this article is more than 8 years old poor sales of lavishly illustrated book forced royal society to go back on. In 1998 the newton project began a comprehensive edition of newtons nonscientific papers.
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