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In 1686, Isaac Newton published, in Latin, his PhilosophiæNaturalis Principia Mathematica, commonly called the Principia. In this landmark effort, he was able to synthesize the work of his predecessors, Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo, and produce a “system of the world” that described not only the celestial motions with remarkable precision, but also the behavior of matter here on the earth. At the outset, he wrote down three “laws”—more accurately, axioms—concerning the motion of matter. These he considered to be given. According to a translation from the Latin by A. Motte, they are
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Seaborn, J.B. (1998). Newton Puts It All Together. In: Understanding the Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0689-7_4
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