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principia

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First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements; as. Newton's Principia.

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A French translation of Principia Philosophiæ, prepared by Abbot Claude Picot, was published in 1647. Source: Internet

Because of this, the Principia has been called "a book dense with the theory and application of the infinitesimal calculus" in modern times Clifford Truesdell, Essays in the History of Mechanics (Berlin, 1968), at p.99. Source: Internet

At last he came to three large volumes which Russell could recognize as the last surviving copy of Principia Mathematica. Source: Internet

Both the 'Rules' and the 'Phenomena' evolved from one edition of the Principia to the next. Source: Internet

By 1908 Russell arrived at a "ramified" theory of types together with an " axiom of reducibility " both of which featured prominently in Whitehead and Russell 's Principia Mathematica published between 1910 and 1913. Source: Internet

Classic works such as Newton 's Principia Mathematica (1687) were written in the language. Source: Internet

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