单词 | principia |
释义 | > as lemmasPrincipia b. In plural Principia: the book Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica (‘The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy’), by Sir Isaac Newton, first published in 1687 and giving a mathematical description of the laws of mechanics and gravitation and their application to planetary motion. ΚΠ 1713 J. Flamsteed Letter to Mr. Sharp in F. Baily Acc. of Flamsteed (1835) 304 D [Sir Isaac Newton] has lately published his Principia anew, wherein he makes this equation ablative where it was formerly to be added, and to be added where it was subductive. 1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 14 F. Frisi..files it up, as the sixth of the errors, which he says have been discovered in the Principia. 1814 T. Jefferson Let. 19 Apr. in Writings (1984) 1335 At the date of yours of the 6th, you had not received mine of the 3d inst., asking a copy of an edition of Newton's Principia, which I had seen advertised. 1878 A. J. C. Hare Walks in London II. ii. 76 The ‘Principia’, which occupies the same position to philosophy as the Bible does to religion. 1988 T. Ferris Coming of Age in Milky Way (1989) i. vi. 118 Newton responded by threatening to leave the Principia unfinished by omitting Part Three. < as lemmas |
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