Newton - 95 edition

Preface
General Introduction

Part 1: Natural Philosophy

Introduction

From "Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae"
Conjunction of Bodies
Of the Celestial Matter and Orbs
Of the Sun, Stars, Planets, and Comets
Of Gravity and Levity
Of Light
Of Sensation
Of the Flux and Reflux of the Sea
Hypothesis of Light
De Aere et Aethere
Queries 1-7 and 31
Queries 18-22
Alexandre Koyré · The Significance of the Newtonian Synthesis
A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall · Newton and the Theory of Matter
Arnold Thackray · Matter in a Nut-Shell: Newton's Opticks and
Eighteenth-Century Chemistry
J. E. McGuire and P. M. Rattansi · Newton and the 'Pipes of Pan'

Part 2: Scientific Method

Introduction

A Note by David Gregory
From Query 31
Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy
From the General Scholium
From Newton to Cotes, March 28, 1713
From Newton to Oldenburg, February 6, 1672
From Newton to Oldenburg, June 10, 1672
From Newton to Oldenburg, July 6, 1672
Colin Maclaurin · From An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical
Discoveries
I. Bernard Cohen · Newton's Method and Newton's Style

Part 3: Experimental Procedure

Introduction

From "Of Colours"
From Newton to Oldenburg, June 11, 1672
From Proposition 6, Book 3 of the Principia
From the General Scholium to Section 6, Book 2 of the Principia
From "An Account of the Book entituled Commercium Epistolicum"

Part 4: Optics

Introduction

Newton to Oldenburg, February 6, 1672
From a Paper on Rings
Queries 28 and 29
Alan E. Shapiro · Experiment and Mathematics in Newton's Theory
of Color
Simon Schaffer · Glass works

Part 5: Rational Mechanics

Introduction

Newton's "Author's Preface to the Reader" of the Principia
Paper of Directions Given by Newton to Bentley Respecting the Books to
Be Read before Endeavoring to Understand the Principia
Definitions
Laws of Motion
Selected Propositions from the Principia, Book 1
Proposition 1
Proposition 2
Proposition 3
Proposition 4
Scholium
Proposition 6
Proposition 11
Proposition 41
Introduction, Section 11
Proposition 57
Proposition 63
Proposition 66
Concluding Scholium to Section 11
Proposition 70
Proposition 71
Scholium to Section 9, Book 2 of the Principia
Alfred North Whitehead · From Science and the Modern World

Part 6: System of the World

Introduction

Book 3: On the System of the World
From The System of the World
Colin Maclaurin: From An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical
Discoveries
David Kubrin · Newton and the Cyclical Cosmos: Providence and the
Mechanical Philosophy

Part 7: Alchemy and Theory of Matter

Introduction

From "Of Natures Obvious Laws and Processes in Vegetation"
Chapter 5 of Praxis
"De Natura Acidorum"
John Maynard Keynes · From "Newton, the Man"
Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs · From "Newton's Alchemy an His Theory
of Matter"

Part 8: Theology

Introduction

From a Memorandum by David Gregory
Four Letters to Richard Bentley
General Scholium
An Early Theological Manuscript
A Short Schem of the True Religion
Twelve Articles
Introduction to a Treatise on Revolution
Richard S. Westfall · Newton and Christianity

Part 9: Mathematics

Introduction

The Tract of October 1666
Section 1, Book 1 of the Principia
Lemma 2, Book 2 of the Principia
Leibniz's Judgment of Newton as a Mathematician
Colson's Account of the Method of Fluxions
George Berkeley · From The Analyst
D. T. Whiteside · Newton the Mathematician

Postscript: Albert Einstein on Newton's Opticks

Biographical Register
Glossary
Glossary of Chemical Terms
Isaac Newton: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography