Gravitation pp 3-36 | Cite as
Newton’s Physics
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In the somewhat legendary book Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica [5] (Mathematical principles of the natural philosophy), published in 1687, Isaac Newton set the fundamentals of modern physics, based on mathematics and calculus. His formulation of mechanics and gravitation remained unchallenged for more than two centuries.
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