1687 · Skopia

Showing 8 works across all media from 1687

Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.

Isaac Newton

Principia · 1687

★ 7.5

Scientific literature

Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts.

Isaac Newton

Principia · 1687

★ 7.3

Fiction · Allegory

The Nine Cloud Dream

Kim Man-jung

1687 · 288 pages

Korea's supreme classical novel banishes a young monk, undone by eight fairies on a bridge, into a life of examinations, armies and love, granted in full so it can be seen through.

★ 6.4

Scientific literature

The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

Isaac Newton

Principia · 1687

★ 4.8

Poem

For present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

John Dryden

The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts · 1687

★ 3.6

Scientific literature

Errors are not in the art, but in the artificers.

Isaac Newton

Principia · 1687

★ 2.4

Comedy (play) · Comedy

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

Aphra Behn

The Emperor of the Moon · 1687

★ 1.2

Poem

By education most have been misled.

John Dryden

The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts · 1687

★ 1.1