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  • The mathematical principles of natural philosophy / by Sir Isaac Newton; translated into English by Andrew Motte: to which are added, Newtonʼs System of the world; a short comment on and defense of, the Principia, by William Emerson; with the laws of the moonʼs motion according to gravity, by John Machin.

    • Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
    Date
    1819
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  • Sir Isaac Newton's mathematick philosophy more easily demonstrated: with Dr. Halley's account of comets illustrated. Being forty lectures read in the publick schools at Cambridge. By William Whiston, M. A. Mr. Lucas's, Professor of the Mathematicks in that University. For the Use of the Young Students there. In this English edition the whole is corrected and improved by the author.

    • Whiston, William, 1667-1752.
    Date
    1716
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  • The system of the world, demonstrated in an easy and popular manner. Being a proper introduction to the most sublime philosophy. By the illustrious Sir Isaac Newton. Translated into English.

    • Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
    Date
    M.DCC.XL. [1740]
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  • Sir Isaac Newton's mathematical principles of natural philosophy and his system of the world / translated into English by Andrew Motte in 1729. The translations revised and supplied with an historical and explanatory appendix, by Florian Cajori.

    • Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
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    1962 ©1934
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  • Miscellaneous tracts on some curious, and very interesting subjects in mechanics, physical-astronomy, and speculative mathematics; wherein, the precession of the equinox, the nutation of the earth's axis, and the motion of the moon in her orbit, are determined. By Thomas Simpson, F. R. S. And Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm.

    • Simpson, Thomas, 1710-1761.
    Date
    MDCCLVII. [1757]
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  • Centrifugal force and gravitation : a lecture / by John Harris.

    • Harris, John, 1942 May 3-
    Date
    1873
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  • The principles of action in matter, the gravitation of bodies, and the motion of the planets, explained from those principles. By Cadwallader Colden, Esq;

    • Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776.
    Date
    MDCCLI. [1751]
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  • Isaac Newton's Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica / [Sir Isaac Newton].

    • Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
    Date
    1972
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  • Newton's Principia : the central argument translations, notes and expanded proofs / Dana Densmore ; translations and illustrations by William H. Donahue.

    • Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
    Date
    [1996, ©1995]
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  • Mathematical elements of natural philosophy confirmed by experiments, or, an introduction to Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy / Written in Latin, by William-James 's Gravesande ... ; Translated into English by J.T. Desaguliers.

    • Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, 1688-1742.
    Date
    1721
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