"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun, and from every system light passes into all the other systems: and lest the systems of the fixed stars should, by their gravity, fall on each other mutually, he hath placed those systems at immense distances one from another."
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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.
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