Contents

Publisher’s Note

Preface to the 1999 Edition

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PRINCIPIA

THE PRINCIPIA (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy)

Halley’s Ode to Newton

Newton’s Preface to the First Edition

Newton’s Preface to the Second Edition

Cotes’s Preface to the Second Edition

Newton’s Preface to the Third Edition

Defnitions

Axioms, or the Laws of Motion

BOOK 1: THE MOTION OF BODIES

BOOK 2: THE MOTION OF BODIES

BOOK 3: THE SYSTEM OF THE WORLD

General Scholium

Notes

Notes Added in Second Printing