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Even I had a copy of the Principia (translated to English) but when I opened the book and realized that Newton did everything with geometry and algebra, foregoi
by giardini 6y ago
Even I had a copy of the Principia (translated to English) but when I opened the book and realized that Newton did everything with geometry and algebra, foregoing the calculus he and Leibnitz developed, I lost interest in the exercise.
So I believe the numbers of those who have the book and those who have read it are quite different.
- billfruit 6y agoYes, but isn't it clever and beautiful that he could do all that without resorting to calculus? I'm thinking of making an attempt at reading it precisely to try to appreciate his geometric reasoning. Also in my time in highschool they used a physics text book which for some reason didn't use calculus at all, and as I remember they had to use a few neat tricks to present the topics in that manner without much dilution.