PRINCIPIA
" beginning, commencement; origin, source; first principle, element; fundamental truth; = ""principle"".
in plural ""principia"": the book philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (‘the mathematical principles of natural philosophy’), by sir isaac newton, first published in 1687 and giving a mathematical description of the laws of mechanics and gravitation and their application to planetary motion.
in the medieval university: an inaugural lecture, sermon, etc.; any of several lectures or disputations required of students before proceeding to the next stage of their studies; specifically (a) a public lecture or disputation by which a bachelor in any faculty, having received the chancellor's licence, ceremonially entered upon his functions to become an actual master or doctor; (b) in paris and elsewhere, a disputation by which a student in the theological faculty became a bachelor of divinity; (c) a discourse upon some theological problem which a bachelor of divinit "
in plural ""principia"": the book philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (‘the mathematical principles of natural philosophy’), by sir isaac newton, first published in 1687 and giving a mathematical description of the laws of mechanics and gravitation and their application to planetary motion.
in the medieval university: an inaugural lecture, sermon, etc.; any of several lectures or disputations required of students before proceeding to the next stage of their studies; specifically (a) a public lecture or disputation by which a bachelor in any faculty, having received the chancellor's licence, ceremonially entered upon his functions to become an actual master or doctor; (b) in paris and elsewhere, a disputation by which a student in the theological faculty became a bachelor of divinity; (c) a discourse upon some theological problem which a bachelor of divinit "