Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, often called simply the Principia, is a book by Sir Isaac Newton that expounds Newton's laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation.
Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727), author of the Principia, by Godfrey Kneller (1689)
Newton's own first edition copy of his Principia, with handwritten corrections for the second edition
Titlepage and frontispiece of the third edition, London, 1726 (John Rylands Library, Manchester)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) formulated a heliocentric model of the universe.
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Neo-Latin is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy during the Italian Renaissance of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and then ac
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
…Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica Title page of Principia, first edition (1687) Author Isaac Newton Language Neo-Latin Publication date 1687 Publication place England Published in English 1728 LC Class QA803 .A53 Original text Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica…
Linnaeus, 1st edition of Systema Naturae is a famous New Latin text.
Erasmus stood at the forefront of the movement to reform Latin and learning.
Christophorus Stimmelius, the German author of the first and highly successful comedy about student life
A fifteenth century lecture