SOURCE: "Isaac Newton (1642-1727)," in Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism, Humanities Press, 1995, pp. 3-31.
In the following excerpt, Dobbs and Jacob survey Newton's life and works, highlighting Newton's primary beliefs, influences, and discoveries up to his writing of the Principia.
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