- Background
- Principia originally only written in Latin
- Took criticism on book
- Second edition published in 1713
- Basic Ideas
- Contained 3 laws of motion
- All motion measured/described by math
- Resting bodies stay at rest, unless compelled otherwise
- Every action has an equal reaction
- Direct Quotes
- “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being” (Principia, Newton).
- “Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion; but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so" (Principia, Newton).