This book provides the first variorum translation into English of Isaac Newtons De motu corporum in gyrum, from the 1685 manuscript at Cambridge University Library (UCL Add. 3990).
It offers a unique perspective on the development of Newtons views on a number of critical issues before the publication of the first edition of the Principia in 1687.
The book fills a critical gap in Newton scholarship. The translation deliberately reflects the vocabulary and syntax of Newtons Latin as closely as possible, enabling the reader to track the text in the manuscript almost word-by-word, including the ubiquitous inserts and deletions that show where and how Newton changes his mind or struggles with the formulation of a point.
Preface.- Introduction.- De motu Corporum, Liber Secundus: A Variorum
Translation.- Notes on Newtons Latin Vocabulary.- Appendix 1: De motu
corporum in mediis regulariter cedentibus (pre Liber Secundus).- Appendix 2:
De motu Corporum, Liber Primus (pre Liber Secundus).- Appendix 3: A
Disconnected Fragment from Liber Primus (pre Liber Secundus).- Appendix 4:
De motu Corporum, Definitiones (post Liber Secundus).- Appendix 5: De motu
Corporum, Liber Primus (post Liber Secundus).- De Motu Corporum, Liber
Secundus: An Article-by-Article Commentary.
Riccardo Strobino, Tufts University
George E. Smith, Tufts University
