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Thomas Professor Emeritus of the History of Science I. Bernard Cohen '37 has unleashed the mysteries of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica--commonly referred to as the Principia--in the first English translation of the book since...
...bulk of the Cohen's book, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy--which weighs in at an impressive 974 pages--consists of Newton's third and final edition of the Principia, although it includes footnotes referring to relevant text included in the other two editions...
Published with the new translation is Cohen's "A Guide to the Principia," a companion essay that introduces each section of the book and develops the main ideas...
...timbre, Christoph boasted a heady admiration for America's paragon of manliness, the Old West cowboy. We were chatting about Westerns and cowboys one day in broken English--my German goes no further than "bier" and "bratwurst"--when he told me of his son's "cowboy coloring book." I was encouraged, to say the least, that America had given this exemplar of the strenuous life an untainted character worthy of his children's admiration (I never saw his son without a red John Wayne neckerchief). But then Christoph sang impromptu of the "Wicki-wicki Wild Wild West," paraphrasing Will Smith...
...turns to his grade book. "I need a sturdier implement to add all this extra credit...