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Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...

A systematic search for copies of the first edition of Newton's Principia (1687) unearthed copies in at least 27 countries, yielding new insights about how people engaged with the famous book. In a ...

Pask (Mathematics for the Frightened) offers an insightful and expansive look into Isaac Newton’s complex and illuminating 1687 publication on classical mechanics, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia ...

A conservationist in France haas uncovered a highly valuable first edition copy of the great physicist Isaac Newton's pioneering text Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia—one of the most important works in ...

Isaac Newton’s own first edition copy of his book Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687) with handwritten corrections for the second edition (Wikimedia Commons) (Fun fact before we ...

It wouldn’t look out of place in a library at Hogwarts, and indeed Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is a work of an age in which alchemy and modern science were just beginning to diverge.