Word: books
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview with The Crimson, Cohen, who teaches a course at the Harvard Extension School and will be teaching at Boston College in the spring, seemed relieved, over a month after its release, that the book was finally published...
...still look at the 950 pages of paper bound in that book, and ask myself, did I do that?" he said. "The difficulty is creating a translation that maintains the meaning of the original text. We know perfectly well what Newton is saying, and we know what his intentions were, but it often took us weeks to determine how to say it in English. It required creative energy--a lot of creative energy to translate hundreds of pages of very particular mathematical proofs...
Cohen began working on this book, together with a co-author, Anne Whitman, in 1974. In 1972, Cohen and Whitman published an edition of Principia, in Latin, that combined all three editions of Newton's Principia, showing the transformation of the work from the original to the third edition...
...feedback was so strong and so positive, that Whitman and Cohen were strongly encouraged, by colleagues, to translate the work into English. Two years after their first book, Whitman and Cohen began their second monstrous project--the translation into English...
However, Cohen called the book "full of errors" and was "as hard to understand as the original...