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Principia Matematica: Tomorrow night at the Gala celebration of The Royal Norwegian Society of Science and Letters, 250 years of Science will be celebrated.Newtons book will be presented as one of a kind.
Read its story:How did this book ended up in Trondheim is interesting in itself since it was printed at 1685 in in only 250 copies and was quickly sold out. Library's edition of the Principe Mathematica is probably the very own of Bishop Gunnerus.
Before the bishop came to Trondheim and founded the Trondhjemske Company, later called the Royal Norwegian Society affirmation, he sojourned in Halle in the period 1742-1744 and for a longer period then in 1744-1758, in Jena, and one can speculate whether it was under this period in Halle and Jena that he bought this book. When Gunnerus died in 1773 leaving behind him a large debt, his large private library was therefore sold. In the auction catalog it says Gerhard Schøning bought Newton's Principia Mathematica.
The book is considered to be a foundation scholarly work for the next century developments in physics and astronomy, and there are hardly any other work in physics, which are similar to that in importance. The work describes the theory that later became known as Newton's laws of motion, which laid the groundwork for classical mechanics and also Newton's universal gravitation theory.
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