Word: principia
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...boyhood, went to Cambridge as a "poor scholar." In his twenties he made three of the greatest discoveries in human history: the Law of Gravitation, the system of mathematics called calculus, and the fact that white light is a composite of colored light. But he did not publish his Principia until two decades later, and then only at the urging of Halley, the comet man. After finishing the Principia, Newton almost lost his mind, but recovered and retained his faculties until he died at 85. But for the. last 40 years of his life his contributions to physics and mathematics...
Included in the Harvard display are the most important of Swendenberg's treatises on science, mining systems, and theology. Editions are shown of his "Principia Rerum Naturalum," published in 1734; "Economy of the Animal Kingdom," 1741, his first important study of the human body; and his "Opera Philosophica at Mineralia...
...taught at Cambridge University, and the University of London until his appointment here. He and Albert Einstein did considerable work together in the mathematical field, and Whitehead is the author of "Principia Mathematica," and the "Principle of Relativity." He was called one of "the three real persons of genius in the world today," by Gertrude Stein. The other two were Pieassa and Gertrude Stein...
...ambitious student launched into a technical comparison of some of Einstein's mathematical theories with "Principia Mathematica," a joint work of Alfred N. Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, and Bernard Russell...