H. Fhilofophia Naturalis Prmcipia Mathematical Au^ 
tore If. Newton Trin. Coll. Cantab. Soc. Mathe^ 
i feos Frgfeffore Lucafiano, Societatis Kegalis 
Sodali. 4to. Londini. Projiat apud plures Biblio- 
polas. 
"'His incomparable Author having at length been pre- 
1 vailed upon to appear in publick, has in this Trea- 
tifc given a moft notable mftance of the extent of the pow- 
ers of the Mind; and has at once fhewn vi^hat are the 
Principles of Natural Philofbphy, and fb far derived from 
them their confequences, that he ftems to have exhaufted 
his Argument, and left little to be done by thofe that lhall 
ftcceed him; His great skill in the old and new Geome- 
try, helped by his own improvements of the latter, (I 
mean his method of mfinite Series) has enabled him to 
mafter thofe Problems, which for their diiBculty would 
h^ve ftill lain unrefblved, had one left qualified than him- 
felf attempted them. 
This Treatife is divided into three Books, whereof the 
two firft are entituled de Mom Corporum^ the third de Sjc^ 
Jiemate M/mdL 
The firft begins with definitions of the Terms made ufe 
of, and diftinguilhes Ttme^ Space ^ Place and Motion into 
abfolute and relative, real and apparent. Mathemati- 
cal and vulgar; fhewing the neceffity of fuch diftin- 
ftion. To thefe definitions are fubjoyned, the Laws of 
Motion, with feveral Corollaries therefrom ; as concerning 
the compofition and relblution of any direO: force out of, 
or into any oblique forces, f whereby the powers of all 
forts of Mechanical Engines are demonftrated : J the Laws 
Oo of 
