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By 1694 Newton had devised some quite radical plans for revising his 1687 Principia. “Newton came in the early 1690’s to conceive a grand scheme of revision of the published Principia,” writes white-side,
in which not only its particular verbal and mathematical errors were to be corrected but, much more radically, the redundant in its logical and expository framework was to be cut out and the flimsier portions of the remaining structure were to be strengthened and supported and (where necessary) completely rebuilt. To David Gregory, during a visit by him to Cambridge in early May 1694, he proved unprecedentedly expansive regarding his intentions, elaborating for him a detailed overview of his plans for revision, and also showing him the manuscript papers in which he had already himself gone some way towards implementing them.♠
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Pourciau, B. (1995). Book Two of Radical Principia. In: Dumas, H.S., Meyer, K.S., Schmidt, D.S. (eds) Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, vol 63. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8448-9_2
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