It takes the average reader 16 hours and 34 minutes to read The Principia by Sir Isaac Newton
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In his monumental 1687 work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues to account for many of the phenomena of the observed world, and Newtonian celestial dynamics is used to determine the orbits of our space vehicles. This completely new translation, the first in 270 years, is...
The Principia by Sir Isaac Newton is 991 pages long, and a total of 248,741 words.
This makes it 334% the length of the average book. It also has 304% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 22 hours and 39 minutes to read The Principia aloud.
The Principia is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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