Published in 1687, Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is by common consent the most consequential scientific book ever written. From three laws of motion and one of universal gravitation, Newton derives the orbits of planets and comets, the tides, the shape of the Earth — the whole machinery of the heavens brought under mathematical law.
This is the Principia in its original Latin, as Newton wrote it and as Europe first read it: the geometric proofs, the scholia, the celebrated General Scholium. Download the free EPUB and meet the book that made the modern world, in the language it was made in.