On reading Isaac Newton's Principia in the 18th century

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Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 159-163

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4. King's College, Cambridge, Keynes MS 133, p. 10. For greater detail on Newton's obscuring the meaning of the Principia, see Iliffe, R. (1995) 'Is he like other men?' The meaning of the Principia Mathematica, and the author as idol, in Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History (Maclean, G., ed.), pp. 159-76, Cambridge University Press
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