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Re:Who speaks Latin these days? by decasteve on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @10:55AM (#5207533)
My interest in learning Latin is to read Newton's Principia and Gauss' Disquisitiones in original form.
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Re:Who speaks Latin these days? by fusiongyro on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @11:55AM (#5207938)
Have you tried Newton's Principia: The Central Argument from Green Lion Press?

http://www.greenlion.com/principi.html

I have this book, and it's really swell. No calculus, because Newton's Principia doesn't have calculus. It's all geometric arguments. They put Newton's text in red and their commentary in black. I haven't studied it (I'm still trying to work my way through their Euclid) but I like having it on the bookshelf.

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