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• TITLE: On the Jesuit Edition of Newton’s Principia. Science and Advanced Researches in the Western Civilization

  AUTHORS: Paolo Bussotti, Raffaele Pisano

  KEYWORDS: Newton; Principia’s Jesuit Edition; La Seur; Jacquier; Calandrini; Mathematical Physics; History of Mathematics; History of Physics; History of Astronomy; Popularization

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Historical Studies, Vol.3 No.1, February 28, 2014

  ABSTRACT: In this research, we present the most important characteristics of the so called and so much explored Jesuit Edition of Newton’s Philosophi? Naturalis Principia Mathematica edited by Thomas Le Seur and Fran?ois Jacquier in the 1739-1742. The edition, densely annotated by the commentators (the notes and the comments are longer than Newton’s text itself) is a very treasure concerning Newton’s ideas and his heritage, e.g., Newton’s geometry and mathematical physics. Conspicuous pieces of information as to history of physics, history of mathematics and epistemology can be drawn from it. This paper opens a series of study concerning Jesuit Edition, whose final scope is to put in evidence all the conceptual aspects of such edition and its role inside the spread of scientific ideas and inside the complex relation science, popularization & society.