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Three Hundred Years of Gravitation

Year: 1988
Type: article
Abstract: S W Hawking and W Israel (eds) 1987 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press xiii + 684 pp price £45 ISBN 0 521 34312 7 This superb volume is the principal element in Cambridge's celebration of the tercentenary of the greatest ever single scientific treatise, Isaac Newton's Principia . Newton's invention of the theory of universal gravitation, and its mathematical development, was its most important achievement.
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2579930951
FWCI: 41.51
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