"Professor Florian Cajori died August 14, 1934. In May of the following year I was invited by the University of California Press to edit this work. ...this is a revision of Motte's translation of the Principia. From many conversations with Professor Cajori, I know that he had long cherished the idea of revising Newton's immortal work by rendering certain parts into modern phraseology (e.g., to change the reading of "reciprocally in the subduplicate ratio of " to "inversely as the square root of") and to append historical and critical notes which would provide instruction to some readers and interest to all. This is his last work; one of the most fitting to crown a life devoted to investigation and to the history of the sciences in his chosen field."
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R. T. Crawford, Editor's Note, Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World (1934) Isaac Newton, Florian Cajori.
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Florian Cajori
1859 – 1930
Florian Cajori (1859 – 1930) was a Swiss-American professor of mathematics and physics. He was one of the most celebrated historians of mathematics in his day. Cajori's A History of Mathematics (1894) was the first popular presentation of the history of mathematics in the United States and his 1928 –1929 History of Mathematical Notations has been described as "unsurpassed."
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