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THE ILLUSTRIOUS

AUTHOR’S

PREFACE

TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY

THE MOST SERENE KING

CHARLES II

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

original: "Philosophiam." At this time, "Natural Philosophy" referred to the study of nature and the physical universe, the precursor to modern science.

FOUNDED

AND

OF THE AUTHOR

THE MOST SERENE KING

GEORGE

King George I, who reigned during the publication of this third edition.

GEORGE

In this third edition of the books The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy original: "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica," Newton’s seminal work on motion and gravitation., the care of which Henry Pemberton, M.D., Henry Pemberton (1694–1771) was a physician and mathematician invited by Newton to edit this final edition, as Newton was then in his eighties. a man most highly skilled in these matters, has undertaken, Newton has corrected several things and made additions to the mechanics and illustrated them with geometric demonstrations; this brevity renders the understanding easier ...?