Bestel Nu The Principia (Great Minds Series) – Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles) is considered to be among the finest scientific works ever published. His grand unifying idea of gravitation, with effects extending throughout the solar system, explains by one principle such diverse phenomena as the tides, the precession of the equinoxes, and the irregularities of the moon’s motion.Newton’s brilliant and revolutionary contributions to science explained the workings of a large part of inanimate nature mathematically and sug…