"In the publication of this work the most acute and universally learned Mr. Edmund Halley not only assisted me with his pains in correcting the press and taking care of the schemes, but it was to his solicitations that its becoming public is owing; for when he had obtained of me my demonstrations of the figure of the celestial orbits, he continually pressed me to communicate the same to the Royal Society, who afterwards, by their kind encouragement and entreaties, engaged me to think of publishing them."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Preface — I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 3rd ed. (U of California P, 2014) p. 383 — In the publication of this work, Edmond Halley, a man of the greatest intelligence and of universal learning, was of tremendous assistance, not only did he correct the typographical errors and see to the making of the woodcuts, but it was he who started me off on the road to this publication. For when he had obtained my demonstration of the shape o
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Naturalis_Principia_Mathematica
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
' (English: The Mathematical Principles of — often referred to as simply the Principia) is a famous book by Isaac Newton. The book established the foundations of classical mechanics and gives the physics and mathematics of and his based on . The Principia is written in Latin and comprises three volumes. The 1st edition was published in 1687 with a 2nd edition in 1713 and a 3rd edition in 1726.
32 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica →
Related Quotes
"Our design not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject not manual but natural powers, we consider chiefly th…"
"I wish we could derive the rest of the phænomena of nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical principles; …"
"[R]ational mechanics will be the science of motions resulting from any forces whatsoever, and of the forces required …"
"An impressed force is an action exerted upon a body, in order to change its state, either of rest, or of moving unifo…"
"I do not define time, space, place and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the vulgar conce…"
"Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without regard to anything ex…"
"Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relativ…"
"Place is a part of space which a body takes up, and is according to the space, either absolute or relative. I say, a …"
"It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular…"
"The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration: and …"