自然哲学的数学原理（Principia）

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Newton’s main work appeared in Latin in London in 1687; Edmond Halley persuaded him to write it and paid for the printing. It is organised like a geometry book, with definitions, three laws of motion and propositions. Book I treats motion under forces in empty space, Book II motion in resisting media, which undermines Descartes’s theory of vortices. Book III, “The System of the World”, derives universal gravitation and explains with it the orbits of planets and comets, the motion of the moon and the tides. The second edition (1713) added the General Scholium, with the remark “I frame no hypotheses” about the cause of gravity.

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• 关于两大世界体系的对话1632 · 伽利略·伽利莱

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• 哲学通信（英国书简）1734 · 伏尔泰
• 物理学基础（Institutions de physique）1740 · 埃米莉·迪·夏特莱
• 纯粹理性批判1781 · 伊曼努尔·康德

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