The Cambridge Companion to NewtonRob Iliffe, George E. Smith Cambridge University Press, 29. mar. 2016 Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and physics. While most famous for his Principia, his work on light and colour, and his discovery of the calculus, Newton devoted much more time to research in chemistry and alchemy, and to studying prophecy, church history and ancient chronology. This new edition of The Cambridge Companion to Newton provides authoritative introductions to these further dimensions of his endeavours as well as to many aspects of his physics. It includes a revised bibliography, a new introduction and six new chapters: three updating previous chapters on Newton's mathematics, his chemistry and alchemy and the reception of his religious views; and three entirely new, on his religion, his ancient chronology and the treatment of continuous and discontinuous forces in his second law of motion. |
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... book 1, Proposition 94. 299 Newton's method for determining the thickness d of a thin film of air formed between a spherical lens and a plane. 303 One quadrant of Newton's rings produced with light of a single color. 309 A compound ...
... book 1, Proposition 94. 299 Newton's method for determining the thickness d of a thin film of air formed between a spherical lens and a plane. 303 One quadrant of Newton's rings produced with light of a single color. 309 A compound ...
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... books, including Equivalence and Priority: Newton versus Leibniz. I. berNArd cOHeN was victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science emeritus at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books in the history of science ...
... books, including Equivalence and Priority: Newton versus Leibniz. I. berNArd cOHeN was victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science emeritus at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books in the history of science ...
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... book Philosophers at War: The quarrel between Newton and Leibniz, and hence readers can always turn to it if they want to go beyond the discussion of the priority dispute in Guicciardini's chapter. The real loss, therefore, is the long ...
... book Philosophers at War: The quarrel between Newton and Leibniz, and hence readers can always turn to it if they want to go beyond the discussion of the priority dispute in Guicciardini's chapter. The real loss, therefore, is the long ...
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... Book 2 in March and Book 3 in April 1687.7 Publication of the Principia in 1687, which ended Newton's life of comparative isolation, led to adulation in Britain and intense opposition to his theory of gravity elsewhere. Other events ...
... Book 2 in March and Book 3 in April 1687.7 Publication of the Principia in 1687, which ended Newton's life of comparative isolation, led to adulation in Britain and intense opposition to his theory of gravity elsewhere. Other events ...
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... book. The situation is similar in physics. Christiaan Huygens extended Galileo's work on motion in important ways, including a superb analysis of pendulum motion and an extraordinarily precise measurement of the strength of surface ...
... book. The situation is similar in physics. Christiaan Huygens extended Galileo's work on motion in important ways, including a superb analysis of pendulum motion and an extraordinarily precise measurement of the strength of surface ...
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