899 and 935–940.įor her invaluable assistance with Latin translations here and throughout this book, I am grateful to Professor Jan McTavish, Alcorn State University, Mississippi. I have used the translation of sections of this work from volume 16 of the Great Books of the Western World (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1939). My argument on Kepler’s celestial magnetism is support by passages in his Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (1618–1621). ![]() Duncan (New York: Abaris Books, 1981), material quoted from pp. Keplars metaphsics relied simply on a pushing force called anima motrix which was. Kepler’s Mysterium Cosmographicum has been translated as The Secret of the Universe, by A.M. Definition of an anomalie and what makes it so important to paradigms. (Cambridge: Cambridge University of Press, 1960). Indispensable is The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, vol. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972). For a scholarly version, with delineations among the three editions, see Isaac Newton’s “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica,” 2 vols, I. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999). The most recent translation of the Principia is Isaac Newton, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, I. ![]() Isaac Newton, De Mundi Systemate (A Treatise on the System of the World), English trans. For information on the 1680–1 comet and Newton’s calculation of the end of the world, I am grateful to Sara Schechner (via the Internet). Schechner, Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), especially chapters 6 and 7. ![]() (Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 1987), pp. For more on Newton and comets, see Simon Schaffer, “Newton’s Comets and the Transformation of Astrology,” in Astrology and Science and Society: Historical Essays, Patrick Curry, ed.
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