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Scholars generally agree that Newton’s Principia marks the climax of the Scientific Revolution.1 This great treatise epitomized the application of mathematics to natural philosophy and set a standard which scientists in such diverse areas as palaeontology and physical chemistry saw as the goal for all developing sciences.2 Yet, to judge from the current literature in intellectual history, the history of philosophy, and even the general history of science, and despite the unanimity on the importance of Newton’s Principia, there is a rather wide-spread lack of precision and a considerable variation from one author to another regarding the nature of the book — its contents, its method, its positive accomplishments, and its failures. Very few scholars today, save for Newtonian specialists, have read the Principia through from cover to cover — a task that demands mathematical skills beyond the range of most historians, plus a background in various aspects of physics and of celestial mechanics.3 Newton himself was aware of the fact that to study carefully every proposition of the first two books of the Principia ‘might be too time-consuming even for readers who are learned in mathematics’, and so he said that he was ‘unwilling to advise anyone to study every one of these propositions’.4
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Cohen, I.B. (1982). The Principia, Universal Gravitation, and the “Newtonian Style”, in relation to the Newtonian Revolution in Science:. In: Bechler, Z. (eds) Contemporary Newtonian Research. Studies in the History of Modern Science, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7715-0_2
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