Title Force and Geometry in Newton's ""Principia""

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Series	Princeton Legacy Library
	Princeton legacy library.
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Summary	In this book François De Gandt introduces us to the reading of Newton's Principia in its own terms. The path of access that De Gandt proposes leads through the study of the geometrization of force. The result is a highly original meditation on the sources and meaning of Newton's magnum opus. In Chapter I De Gandt presents a translation of and detailed commentary on an earlier and simpler version of what in 1687 became Book I of the Principia; here in clearer and starker outline than in the final version, the basic principles of Newton's dynamics show forth. Chapte.
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Subject	Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Principia.
	Principia (Newton, Isaac)
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Added Author	Wilson, Curtis.
Other Form:	Print version: De Gandt, François. Force and Geometry in Newton's ""Principia"". Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN	9781400864126 (electronic book)
	1400864127 (electronic book)