Abstract
Review of The “Jesuit Edition” of Isaac Newton’s Principia
Highlights
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in Latin), hereafter Principia, a three-volume tour de force written by Isaac Newton, and published in 1687, is the 242 seminal work in the history of modern physics
The works by Pierre Varignon (1645-1722), David Gregory (16591708), Guillaume François Antoine Marquis de l’Hôpital (1661-1704), Johann Bernoulli (1667-1748), Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754), John Keil (1671-1748), Jacob Hermann (1678-1733) and Willem Jacob’s Gravesande (1688-1742) are among the first contributions to physics derived from the exegesis and expansion of the outcomes of the Principia
The authors, clarifying the relevance of the Jesuit Edition” (JE), remind their readers that, historically, the commentators of the Principia have tried to “1) explain Newton’s propositions in a clearer manner than Newton did; 2) translate the properties given by Newton geometrically in more analytical terms; 3)
Summary
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in Latin), hereafter Principia, a three-volume tour de force written by Isaac Newton, and published in 1687, is the 242 seminal work in the history of modern physics. The so-called “Jesuit Edition,” which is the focus of Bussotti’s and Pisano’s project, was based on the third edition of Newton’s Principia, published between 1739 and 1742, in four volumes, by the minim frias Thomas Le Seur (1703-1770), François Jacquier (1711-1788), both of whom were French priests, and Jean-Louis Calandrini (1703-1758), a Swiss mathematician.
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