The Principia Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Isaac Newton
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Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Latin Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), generally called "The Principia", is a work in three books by Isaac Newton. Initially published 5 July 1687. The Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically). The Principia is generally regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science.
The Principia Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Isaac Newton
The explanatory material, publishers's notes, and most of the reviews above all refer to the Bernard Cohen translation and commentary (UC Berkeley Press, blue cover) - but they are attached to the Amazon listing for the Snowball Publishing edition (brownish cover), which is not the same thing at all!!The entry for the Snowball edition - listed on Amazon discount for about $13 - clearly states that it is the Cohen translation with his commentaries. In fact, it is merely a cheap reproduction of some earlier edition of the standard Motte translation, with modernized spelling. It is the complete text of the (translated) Third Edition of the Principia, but with no other associated works by Newton and nothing by Cohen. Snowball does not even give the translator's name, either on the cover or in the front matter! The lithographic reproduction is readable but poor quality - with many broken characters and even edges of pages slightly cut off. This is a usable cheap edition of the well-known 1729 translation, but it is NOT the modern translation, as the Amazon listing explicitly states. (In fact, Amazon's "Search Inside This Book" feature, from the Snowball edition page, takes you to the search pages for the Cohen edition - a completely different, and much more expensive, book!)
I'm sure this was a good-faith error on Amazon's part, but it is completely misleading. Buyers should know what they are getting. If you are reading this on the page listing for the Snowball Publishing edition of the Principia, you aren't getting what they say you are. Be forewarned.
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The Principia Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Isaac Newton Reviews
This is a great book by a great scientist. Keep in mind that it's translated from Latin so some concepts may be presented a little differently than intended. I love the size of this book; it feels like a textbook. The print is easy to read and printed on quality paper. Worth every penny
I was hoping it would be understandable but it’s not. Not that anything g is wrong, it’s just that an untranslated book in English from 300 years ago is not something we can read today
This book is a facsimile version, which appeals to my sense of history; although it has a drawback in places bits of letters have gone missing and it can impede reading ease and comprehension. Kind of like both sides of a coin I guess, so I present this as a fact, not a criticism.
The real challenge is that it isn't helping me learn maths, I see no evidence of it being like a tutorial or textbook. It reads much more like a reference for people who have a very good understanding of the maths in it already. I'm very interested in understanding what it says, and it's going to take additional help.
All up, I think it's a treasure in the historical sense as a time capsule of science, it's an economical price and looks as though it's made to last as a book.
I was excited when this book was suggested for me. The problem is that it takes a great deal of concentration to read it. I barely recognized Newton's three laws of motion. It is about as readable as a PhD thesis.
Anyone can afford to acquire this premier work which presents the fundamental principals of physics.
I gave it three stars because the idea of having it on the format is commendable. However, the translation needs a translation. Perhaps, there is a brillant writer , like Michael Guillan or Andy Weir, who can put the concepts into a form that is much easier to comprehend.
This is the work which, for better and for worse, changed how we humans live forever, uniting the heavens and earth under a satisfying physical theory for the first time. The English translation is smooth enough that it feels like Newton wrote the work 'yesterday'. The introductory sections by Cohen give a detailed overview of the work itself and the broader context in which it was written, which helps in recognising some mathematical presentation and concepts we no longer use or are unfamiliar with.
The overall methods used in the Principia have found their use throughout modern physics practice--mathematical modelling, idealisations, theory-mediated measurements, etc. Even with the advent of General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory, we still do physics (in a broad fashion) in a way which is present in this book. No wonder, as a physicist-in-training, I found this work to be an exemplar, despite the less-than-satisfying results in some sections, as Newton himself admitted, of how natural science is to be done (notwithstanding its limitations, as unfortunately we learned the hard way).
I've only examined the book in a very cursory (e.g., turning pages, looking at diagrams, etc.) way, so I don't have anything profound to say. Newton's use of geometry to "prove" many mathematical properties leading to calculus is very interesting. Today, these concepts can be explained in terms of point set topology, for example. I'm amazed at how Newton was able to use the only mathematical tools available to him at the time to develop his "version" of calculus (Leibniz also).
This is not an easy read even for mathematicians. But hey, you can't blame the publishers for that ... it's Newton's original text, and it's a work of genius. Newton did use some pretty heavy language and sentence structure, so you have to read it real slowly and multiple times to grasp the concepts.
What I can blame the publishers for, though, is that some of the text is hard to see clearly. Letters and words are cut-off at the margins of the page, so some words are truncated. This makes it even a more difficult text to parse and understand.
The explanatory material, publishers's notes, and most of the reviews above all refer to the Bernard Cohen translation and commentary (UC Berkeley Press, blue cover) - but they are attached to the listing for the Snowball Publishing edition (brownish cover), which is not the same thing at all!!
The entry for the Snowball edition - listed on discount for about $13 - clearly states that it is the Cohen translation with his commentaries. In fact, it is merely a cheap reproduction of some earlier edition of the standard Motte translation, with modernized spelling. It is the complete text of the (translated) Third Edition of the Principia, but with no other associated works by Newton and nothing by Cohen. Snowball does not even give the translator's name, either on the cover or in the front matter! The lithographic reproduction is readable but poor quality - with many broken characters and even edges of pages slightly cut off. This is a usable cheap edition of the well-known 1729 translation, but it is NOT the modern translation, as the listing explicitly states. (In fact, 's "Search Inside This Book" feature, from the Snowball edition page, takes you to the search pages for the Cohen edition - a completely different, and much more expensive, book!)
I'm sure this was a good-faith error on 's part, but it is completely misleading. Buyers should know what they are getting. If you are reading this on the page listing for the Snowball Publishing edition of the Principia, you aren't getting what they say you are. Be forewarned.
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