Real scientists, after all, do not leaf through Newton's "Principia Mathematica" to solve contemporary problems in physics.

毕竟，真正的科学家不可能翻翻牛顿的“数学原理”，就将当代物理难题一一解决。

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Sir Isaac the Alchemist, he said, was no less the fierce and uncompromising scientist than was Sir Isaac, author of the magisterial Principia Mathematica.

作为炼金术士的艾萨克爵士，他说道，和作为权威的数学原理的作者的艾萨克爵士比起来不呈多让。

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Following publication of Principia Mathematica - surely the most influential book ever written in physics - Newton had risen rapidly into public prominence.

随着那部肯定是物理学有史以来最有影响的书——《数学原理》的出版，牛顿很快就成为名重一时的人物。

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"Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687) was the last major work in England to be published in Latin, " says Ostler.

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As well as the Captain Scott letter, held at the Polar Museum, and Darwin's animal specimens at the Museum of Zoology, other items include Isaac Newton's own copy of Principia Mathematica, at Cambridge University Library.

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