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Physics Today November 1996
'To grasp the truly awesome nature of Newton's achievement in the Principia, it is necessary to turn to Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's Newton's Principia for the Common Reader... THis is a valuable guide to the Principia - certainly beyond the level of the "common reader"...'
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To grasp the truly awesome nature of Newton's achievement in the Principia, it is necessary to turn to Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's Newton's Principia for the Common Reader... THis is a valuable guide to the Principia - certainly beyond the level of the "common reader" - that will take its place in the succession of major commentaries on the Principia of the past three centuries. (Physics Today November 1996 )
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Some acquaintance, with the antecedents of the less than two years-from the late autumn of 1684 to the early summer of 1686-in which Newton composed the entire Principia, is essential to a proper appreciation of the range and variety of the topics that are treated in it in depth and with rare perception. Read the first page
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Some acquaintance, with the antecedents of the less than two years-from the late autumn of 1684 to the early summer of 1686-in which Newton composed the entire Principia, is essential to a proper appreciation of the range and variety of the topics that are treated in it in depth and with rare perception. Read the first page
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