Timeline for Which edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica of Isaac Newton would you recommend to me?
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| Mar 28, 2018 at 21:47 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | Chaddrasekhar is not "an edition of Newton". It is only his own digest and only of the first volume. | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 20:37 | comment | added | Robert Bryant | @MattF.: Thanks. I'll have a look at this reference. It has been a few years since I went through Chandrasekhar's book, but I remember it as a very enlightening experience. | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 20:10 | comment | added | user44143 | Rather than say “with that knowledge of what is going on”, it would be helpful to say “with that idea of what might have gone on”. See G.E. Smith’s review for some of Chandrasekhar’s erroneous corrections of Newton at adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1996JHA....27..353S | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 18:52 | history | answered | Robert Bryant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |