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		thesnider on July 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Read the masters This seems to be false according to the scan here: http://books.google.com/books?id=Tm0FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1#v=o...

mturmon on July 15, 2012 [–]

It is in fact rewarding, and something of a corrective to the viewpoint of the OP, to page through the first pages of the Principia you linked to.

Doing this helps to understand why going back to some original sources is not very rewarding at all. The 1600s were a long time ago.

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