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To start with, I think he should have linked to http://archive.org/details/newtonspmathema00newtrich, not to their .txt link.

It also is on http://books.google.nl/books/about/The_Mathematical_Principl..., but 'not yet available in your country' for me, so I don't know whether that is good.

There is a free ePub on the iBookstore in the original Latin (also a paid one in English)

If you read anything by Newton, I would advise Opticks, by the way, to learn that, even for geniuses, it is all hard work to get there (TL;DR version: he did not order his lenses on the Internet and needed the sun (in England) for lots of his experiments)



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