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Newton’s Major Works<\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Year<\/th>Book<\/th>Subject<\/th>Contribution<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1687<\/td>Philosophia naturalis
\nprincipia mathematica<\/u><\/td>		Terrestial physics;
\ncelestial mechanics.<\/td>		Revised edition, Cambridge, 1713; reprints, Amsterdam, 1714, 1723; London, 1726. Synthesis of terrestrial physics (three laws of motion) and celestial physics (universal gravitation).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1704<\/td>Optics<\/u><\/td>Phenomena of colors
\n(reflection, refraction, etc.)
\nthe nature of light;
\nexperimentation.<\/td>		First edition, English; Enlarged editions, 1706 (Latin), and 1717 and 1718 (English). Laws of reflection, refraction; experimental method; experimental physics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1711<\/td>De analysi<\/u><\/td>Pure mathematics;
\ncalculus.<\/td>		Foundational work on calculus.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1717 &
\n1718<\/td>		Enumerato linearum
\ntertii ordinis [1667] and Tractavus de uadratura curvarum<\/u><\/td>		Pure mathematics;
\ncalculus.<\/td>		Specific illustrations of his fluxions and fluents later generalized in the Methodus fluxionum.<\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1736
\n[1671]<\/td>		Methodus fluxionum et
\nserierum infinitarum<\/u><\/td>		Pure mathematics, fluxions.
\nCalculus in more general
\nterms.<\/td>		Shows Newton's methods for fluxional calculus in more general terms that De analysi<\/u> (1711), e.g., the method of quadrature and the inverse method of tangents.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"off","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-science","category-study-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}