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If our scientific civilization was about to become extinct and you could save only one book in the entire world’s science library, which book would you save? To you this may be a huge problem, but to many physicists that one book would have to be Newton’s Principia, the book in which Newton lay down his framework for the theory of motion. This one book has acted once as the beginning sourcebook of three hundred years of science and technology, and perhaps it could do that again.
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Goswami, A. (2000). The Foundations of the Newtonian Paradigm: the Laws of Motion. In: The Physicists’ View of Nature, Part 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1227-1_3
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