The Sir Isaac Newton Page
( 1642 - 1727 )
Major Works
Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: Motion of Bodies, Translated by Andrew Motte and Florian Cajori, is published in two volumes by California, 1934; 1980. Cajori revised, in 1934, the translation of Motte, which appeared in 1729. Optics is published by Dover Publications, 1952.
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica ( 1687; 1726 ).
Opticks ( 1704; 1730 ).
Method of Fluxions ( 1704 ).
Arithmetica universalis ( 1707 ).
Correspondence, 1661 - 1727. Two Volumes. Edited by H. W. Trumbull. Cambridge, 1959 - 60.
About Newton
Richard S. Westfall, The Life of Isaac Newton. Cambridge, 1994. An abridgement of Westfall's Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton. Cambridge, 1983.
Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the Eighteenth-Century Poets. Princeton, 1946.
Sir Isaac Newton from Lucidcafe.
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