Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

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book scientific treatise

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is Isaac Newton’s foundational work that formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation, becoming a cornerstone of classical physics and the Scientific Revolution.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book → scientific treatise →
author	Isaac Newton →
BookIIITitle	De mundi systemate (On the system of the world) →
BookIITitle	De motu corporum in mediis resistentibus (On the motion of bodies in resisting media) →
BookITitle	De motu corporum (On the motion of bodies) →
centralConcept	absolute space → absolute time → force → inertial motion → mass →
contains	law of universal gravitation → laws of motion → method of fluxions in geometric form →
countryOfOrigin	Kingdom of England →
dedicatedTo	Edmond Halley →
dividedInto	Book I → Book II → Book III →
editor	Edmond Halley →
explains	cometary orbits → planetary motion → precession of the equinoxes → tides →
field	history of science →
firstEditionPrintRun	about 300 copies →
formulates	Newton's laws of motion → law of universal gravitation →
frameworkFor	deterministic laws of nature →
fundedBy	Edmond Halley →
influenced	Enlightenment science → Scientific Revolution → astronomy → classical mechanics → engineering →
libraryOfCongressClassification	QA803 .N4 →
notableModernTranslation	Andrew Motte translation →
originalLanguage	Latin →
publicationYear	1687 →
publisher	Royal Society →
secondEditionYear	1713 →
subject	astronomy → celestial mechanics → classical mechanics → mathematics → natural philosophy → physics →
thirdEditionYear	1726 →
titleTranslation	Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy →
uses	geometric methods →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Newton's second law of motion → Newtonian absolute space → Newtonian absolute time ("Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica") →	describedIn
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("De motu corporum in mediis resistentibus (On the motion of bodies in resisting media)") →	BookIITitle
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("De motu corporum (On the motion of bodies)") →	BookITitle
Scientific Revolution →	hasMajorWork
law of universal gravitation →	publishedIn
Newton's first law of motion →	statedIn
Edmund Halley ("Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica") →	supervisedPublication
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy") →	titleTranslation