ANDREW MOTTE'S translation of the “Principia ... Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and his System of the World. Translated into English by Andrew Motte.

"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants" Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist ... His book Principia, published in 1687, is regarded as the greatest scientific ...

Halley's report was duly recorded in the minutes, and he was urged to push Newton to publish his little work as soon as possible. The Principia was not an easy book to read in Newton's day ...