Selections from Newton's Principia: A Science Classics Module for Humanities Studies

The Green Lion's Preface
About this Module vii
About the Series viii

Preliminaries
About Isaac Newton ix
The Grand Sweep of Principia and its Central Argument x
About Newton's Use of Mathematics xiv
Glossary xix

Title Page of the First Latin Edition 1
Book I
Newton's Preface to the Reader 3
Definitions 5
Scholium on absolute time, space, place and motion 23
Axioms, or Laws of Motion 29
Scholium after the Laws of Motion 34
Book I Proposition 1 39
Book I Proposition 4 47
Book III
Preface to Book III 57
Rules of Philosophizing 59
Phenomena 63
Book III Proposition 1 75
Book III Propositions 2-3 77
About the Moon Test" 78
Book III Proposition 4 79
Scholium After III.4 90
General Scholium 93
Bibliography 97"