by Isaac Newton · Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico da USC · tapa dura · ISBN 9788497502757
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«O sistema do mundo» is a scientific essay by Isaac Newton, published in hardback by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (162 pages, in Galician).
In this work, Newton sets out the principles governing the motion of celestial bodies and the organisation of the universe, with a view of mechanics and gravitation that renewed the scientific understanding of his era. This Galician edition makes this text from the history of science accessible.
Published in 2004. With a foreword by Carlos Pajares Vales and a translation by José Manuel Díaz de Bustamante.
A work of interest to readers of the history of science and to those who wish to learn about Isaac Newton's thought.
Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.
