As a result, no money was left over for another publication, " Principia Mathematica" , by Isaac Newton.
结果,对于另一鸿篇巨著—牛顿的《自然哲学的数学原理》,学会只能爱莫能助了。
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Following publication of Principia Mathematica— surely the most influential book ever written in physics—Newton had risen rapidly into public prominence.
随着《数学原理》——无疑是有史以来最具影响力的物理学著作——的出版,牛顿迅速成为公众关注的焦点。
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Here in Corpus Christi's Parker Library, that college's literary treasures are proudly on display, such as letters from Anne Boleyn before husband Henry VIII lopped off her head and a first edition of Newton's groundbreaking treatise, " Principia Mathematica."
The scientific discoveries of Isaac Newton's " Principia Mathematica" and the works of natural philosophers such as Galileo Galilei helped usher in a wave of scientific progress, a scientific revolution, based on a new, advanced understanding of the scientific method.
I can remember Bertrand Russell telling me of a horrible dream. He was in the top floor of the University Library, about A.D. 2100. A library assistant was going round the shelves carrying an enormous bucket, taking down books, glancing at them, restoring them to the shelves or dumping them into the bucket. At last he came to three large volumes which Russell could recognize as the last surviving copy of Principia Mathematica. He took down one of the volumes, turned over a few pages, seemed puzzled for a moment by the curious symbolism, closed the volume, balanced it in his hand and hesitated....