Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS xxiii
4. PLATES xxvii
5. ABBREVIATIONS AND SPECIAL SYMBOLS xxviii
6. AN EDITION OF NEWTON’S ‘PRINCIPIA’ xxix
7. PART ONE: AN EDITION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ WITH VARIANT READINGS
8. CHAPTER I: INTEREST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ 3
9. CHAPTER II: THE PLAN OF THE PRESENT EDITION WITH VARIANT READINGS AND THE PROBLEMS OF NEWTONIAN SCHOLARSHIP 21
10. PART TWO: THE WRITING AND FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’
11. CHAPTER III: STEPS TOWARD THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ 47
12. CHAPTER IV: WRITING THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ 82
13. CHAPTER V: THE COMPLETION AND PRINTING OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ 130
14. PART THREE: REVISING THE ‘PRINCIPIA’
15. CHAPTER VI: THE FIRST CRITICAL EVALUATIONS OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ 145
16. CHAPTER VII: REVISIONS, CHIEFLY OF THE 1690s, AND PLANS FOR A SECOND EDITION 162
17. CHAPTER VIII: STEPS TOWARD A SECOND EDITION 200
18. PART FOUR: THE SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’
19. CHAPTER IX: THE SECOND EDITION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ 227
20. CHAPTER X: THE RECEPTION OF THE SECOND EDITION: THE TWO REPRINTS 252
21. CHAPTER XI: THE THIRD EDITION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ 265
22. SUPPLEMENTS
23. SUPPLEMENT I: SOME AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS BY NEWTON ABOUT THE COMPOSITION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ 289
24. SUPPLEMENT II: HUMPHREY NEWTON AND THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ 299
25. SUPPLEMENT III: NEWTON’S PROFESSORIAL LECTURES 302
26. SUPPLEMENT IV: NEWTON’S LUCASIAN LECTURES: ‘DE MOTU GORPORUM, LIBER PRIMUS’ 310
27. SUPPLEMENT V: THE RESISTANCE OF SPHERICAL BODIES 322
28. SUPPLEMENT VI: NEWTON’S ‘SYSTEM OF THE WORLD’ 327
29. SUPPLEMENT VII: A CRITIQUE (BY HALLEY?) OF A PRELIMINARY VERSION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ 336
30. SUPPLEMENT VIII: THE TRACT ‘DE QUADRATURA’ AND THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ 345
31. SUPPLEMENT IX: NEWTON’S LEMMAS AND PROPOSITIONS ON THE ‘HORARY MOTION OF THE LUNAR APOGEE’ 350
32. BIBLIOGRAPHY 355
33. INDEX 369