Science

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

by Isaac Newton

Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy of 1687, which set out the three laws of motion and universal gravitation. Halley paid for the printing himself. Almost nobody could follow it at the time, and it changed everything anyway.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 7 hr 45 min

Where to find it

The Latin Reading Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #28233. In the public domain in the United States.