Posted on 09/06/03
The soul in science
Last November, while the world's attention was focused on Iraq, thieves stole a rare first edition of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica from the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg. A few weeks later, police announced its recovery to an uninterested world. Principia, first published in 1687, is a key work in modern science. In it, Newton proposed the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation, foundations of physical sciences and engineering.
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