Principia Mathematica (Newton) - Etext in English?

[halcombe]

I have tried without success to locate an extext of the complete text
of the 'Principia' in English.

Yet there only appears to be the odd few extracts available, such as
those from the Andrew Motte 1729 translations at [1].

The orginal Latin text is available [2], as is a two-volume
translation (1759) into French (from an English translation - possibly
Motte's) by no less a scientific luminary than the Marquise Du
Chastellet [3].

But no complete text in English.

It would be strange if such an iconic work should not be available in
English - so I conclude that I've been looking in the wrong places!

Any steers towards the right places gratefully accepted.

[1] http://members.tripod.com/~gravitee/toc.htm
[2] http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/ConsultationTout.exe?E=0&O=N003363

[3] http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/ConsultationTout.exe?O=N029037&E=0
http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/ConsultationTout.exe?E=0&O=N029038

[Uncle Al]

halcombe wrote:
>
> I have tried without success to locate an extext of the complete text
> of the 'Principia' in English.
>
> Yet there only appears to be the odd few extracts available, such as
> those from the Andrew Motte 1729 translations at [1].
>
> The orginal Latin text is available [2], as is a two-volume
> translation (1759) into French (from an English translation - possibly
> Motte's) by no less a scientific luminary than the Marquise Du
> Chastellet [3].
>
> But no complete text in English.
>
> It would be strange if such an iconic work should not be available in
> English - so I conclude that I've been looking in the wrong places!
>
> Any steers towards the right places gratefully accepted.

In hardcopy,

Newton, Isaac. 1687, "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica"
("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and his System of the
World"), trans. by A. Motte and revised by F. Cajori (University of
California Press: Berkeley, 1934)

In point of fact that translation is not first calss. Much better is

Newton, Isaac. "The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural
Philosophy" Trans. I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, with the
assistance of Julia Budenz (University of California Press: Berkeley,
1999)

Try Project Gutenberg for on-ine stuff.

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[Michael Mcneil]

The library of congress will have all there is but the search engine
they have on that site is on a very short time out. However since you
know what the title you want is that should be no problem.

I had the Mott translation once, picked it up in a second hand bookshop
would you believe. One of the Liverpool colleges supplied me with a list
they had of text books based on Principia but I never followed them up.
Funny thing, just before I logged in I was thinking of checking out Keel
College which is just down the road from here.

Let me know how you get on.

Mike.

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[Michael Mcneil]

http://members.tripod.com/~gravitee/rules.htm

RULE I.
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both
true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain,
and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with
simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

This would explain why he was a Unitarian despite the despotic rule of
the Anglo Catholic church. So tell me how many reasons are there for the
behaviour of Mercury? Did this bloke Mott write before Henry of Ockam?
If not, was his translation verbatim?

And why the hell is this notice board so bloody antiquated? Also I could
only open some of the pages in this link. Is it overfull (I seem to
recall a problem with Tripod web space) or still being written? (Note
the one good thing about this site is that you can trawl back and get
stuff so I hope that facility isn't lost if they ever upgrade Mailgate.
Do they?)

[PoorRichard]

I have a copy of this translation. It is excellent IMO.

"Uncle Al" <Uncl...@hate.spam.net> wrote in message

[Michael Mcneil]

I just had a look at the AN Whitehead version editted by B Russel. It
has modern calculus. Pity I forgot me glasses!

Keele once held original manuscript of Newton. It was sold to somewhere
in California. I would have asked more but my understanding of Ourang
Utang is somewhat limited to "Ook!"

If you want to find where they went try:

http://www.keele.ac.uk. -> Services -> library -> ooks.