![]() ![]() Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.Chandrasekhar’s main purpose is to reconstruct Newton’s mathematical physics in contemporary language. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s Newton’s “Principia” for the Common Reader (Oxford University Press, 1995) addresses the student and the scientist with little interest in the historical context of Newton’s Principia. The same historian can also turn to William Harper’s Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method: Turning Data into Evidence About Gravity and Cosmology (Oxford University Press, 2011) for useful insights into the amazing amount of empirical work grounding Principia’s theoretical achievements. Niccolò Guicciardini’s Reading the “Principia”: The Debate on Newton’s Mathematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736 (Cambridge University Press, 1999) addresses the professional historian of science. However, the common reader differs widely from one author to the next. Mathematician Colin Pask’s Magnificent “Principia”: Exploring Isaac Newton’s Masterpiece belongs to a respectable tradition: books that attempt to translate the abstruse Principia for the common reader. ![]()
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