The standard translation of this neo-Latin text into French was published by Voltaire ten years after its translator, Emilie (*) du Chatelet, died during childbirth.
David Hartley's Observations on Man uses the "method of analysis and synthesis" presented in this other book to study humanity. The second edition of this book ends with a section stating that "the most beautiful system of the Sun, planets and comets" sprang from a "powerful and intelligent being," an idea defended by Samuel Clarke, a friend of this work's author. The standard translation of this neo-Latin text into French was published by Voltaire ten years after its translator, Emilie (*) du Chatelet, died during childbirth. This book, which contains its author's statement "I contrive no hypotheses" in its concluding General Scholium uses data from John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley in its third section On the System of the World, to posit a theory of universal gravitation. A theory of infinitesimal calculus is presented in, for 10 points, what work first appearing in 1687, the magnum opus of Isaac Newton?
David Hartley's Observations on Man uses the "method of analysis and synthesis" presented in this other book to study humanity.
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica 