Britannica Great Books: Newton and Huygens

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Other authors: Christiaan Huygens (Contributor), Isaac Newton (Contributor)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Huygens, Christiaan	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Newton, Isaac	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Adler, Mortimer	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Hutchins, Robert M.	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Great Books of the Western World (Volume 34, 1952 ed.)

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Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton

Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light by Sir Isaac Newton

Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens

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Britannica Great Books: Newton and Huygens

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1687 (Principia Mathematica)

1704 (Optics)

1690 (Treatise on Light)

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Since the ancients (as we are told by Pappus) esteemed the science of mechanics of greatest importance in the investigation of natural things, and the moderns, rejecting substantial forms and occult qualities, have endeavored to subject the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics, I have in this treatise cultivated mathematics as far as it relates to philosophy.

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This work is volume 34 of Britannica's Great Books of the Western World and is an omnibus of works on physics by Sir Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens. It should not be combined with any of the individual works, or with omnibi that contain only a selection of works (such as only the works by Newton without Huygens).

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