自然哲学的数学原理 伯纳德·科恩译 The Principia: The Authoritative Translation: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosoph

基本信息

Publisher：University of California Press

Publication date：February 5, 2016

Edition：First Edition

Language：English

Print length：616 pages

ISBN-10：0520290747

ISBN-13：978-0520290747

Item Weight：2.32 pounds

Dimensions：7 x 1.1 x 10 inches

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书籍简介

艾萨克·牛顿在其1687年的巨著《自然哲学的数学原理》（通常简称为《自然哲学的数学原理》）中，以数学术语阐述了时间、力和运动的原理，这些原理指导了现代物理科学的发展。即使在经历了三个多世纪以及爱因斯坦相对论和量子力学的革命之后，牛顿物理学仍然能够解释许多观测世界现象，牛顿天体动力学也被用于确定航天器的轨道。

这部权威的现代译本由I. Bernard Cohen和Anne Whitman编著，是285多年来基于1726年版（牛顿认可的修订版）的译本；它收录了早期版本的摘录，纠正了早期版本中的错误，并用当代散文和新的数学形式取代了古英语。

牛顿的原理描述了加速度、减速和惯性运动；流体动力学；以及地球、月球、行星和彗星的运动。《自然哲学的数学原理》本身就是一部伟大的著作，它彻底改变了科学研究的方法。它阐述了三大基本运动定律和万有引力定律，这些物理原理解释了经开普勒修正的哥白尼世界体系，从而有效地结束了关于哥白尼行星体系的争议。

这部杰出著作的纯译本非常适合当今的科学家、学者和学生阅读。

In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues to account for many of the phenomena of the observed world, and Newtonian celestial dynamics is used to determine the orbits of our space vehicles.

This authoritative, modern translation by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, the first in more than 285 years, is based on the 1726 edition, the final revised version approved by Newton; it includes extracts from the earlier editions, corrects errors found in earlier versions, and replaces archaic English with contemporary prose and up-to-date mathematical forms.

Newton's principles describe acceleration, deceleration, and inertial movement; fluid dynamics; and the motions of the earth, moon, planets, and comets. A great work in itself, the Principia also revolutionized the methods of scientific investigation. It set forth the fundamental three laws of motion and the law of universal gravity, the physical principles that account for the Copernican system of the world as emended by Kepler, thus effectively ending controversy concerning the Copernican planetary system.

The translation-only edition of this preeminent work is truly accessible for today's scientists, scholars, and students.

作者简介

I. Bernard Cohen（1914-2003）曾任哈佛大学维克多·S·托马斯科学史教授。他著有《本杰明·富兰克林的科学、互动》和《科学与开国元勋》。

Anne Whitman（1937-1984）与 I. Bernard Cohen 和 Alexander Koyré 共同编辑了《自然哲学的数学原理》拉丁文版及其不同版本。

Julia Budenz 是《来自弗洛拉·鲍姆花园》的作者，是一位精通多国语言的古典学家和诗人。

I. Bernard Cohen (1914–2003) was Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He was the author of Benjamin Franklin's Science, Interactions, and Science and the Founding Fathers. 

Anne Whitman (1937–1984) was coeditor (with I. Bernard Cohen and Alexander Koyré) of the Latin edition, with variant readings, of the Principia. 

Julia Budenz, author of From the Gardens of Flora Baum, is a multilingual classicist and poet.