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The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Sir Isaac Newton (1687)

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Sir Isaac Newton (1687)

THE PRINCIPIA. THE AUTHOR’S PREFACE Since the ancients (as we are told by Pappus), made great account of the science of mechanics in the investigation of natural …

 

Discourse on Method, René Descartes (1637)

Discourse on Method, René Descartes (1637)

PART I. Good Sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those …