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Re: Principia






There's a new translation and guide to the Principia that
reflects some of the newer Newton scholarship:

The Key to Newton's Dynamics : The Kepler Problem and the Principia :
Containing an English Translation of Sections 1, 2, and 3 of Book One
from....

(long title truncated by my search)

by J. Bruce Brackenridge , Mary Ann Rossi(Translator) ,

Published by Univ of California Press
Publication date: December 1995
ISBN: 0520200659

I don't have a copy in front of me, but this book has study guides
for current students of mechanics.

(I took sophomore mechanics from Professor Brackenridge, lo these
many years ago...)

JEG

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