NEWTON S PRINCIPIA, 



ANALYTICAL VIEW. 



THIS work is justly considered by all men as the greatest 

 of the monuments of human genius. It contains the 

 exposition of the laws of motion in all its varieties, whether 

 in free space or in resisting media, and of the action 

 exerted by the masses or the particles of matter upon 

 each other, those laws demonstrated by synthetic reason 

 ing ; and it unfolds the most magnificent discovery that 

 was ever made by man the Principle of Universal 

 Gravitation, by which the system of the universe is go 

 verned under the superintendence of its Divine Maker. 

 Two of the three Books into which the treatise is divided 

 are chiefly composed of mathematical investigations, con 

 ducted by the most refined and profound, but at the same 

 time the most elegant application of geometry, and of a 

 calculus which is only a particular form of the fluxionary 

 method invented by the illustrious author in his early 

 years. The Third Book contains an explanation of the 

 motions of the heavenly bodies, deduced chiefly from the 

 first portion of the former part, and grounded upon the 



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