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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... church history, and ancient chronology. This new edition of The Cambridge Companion to Newton provides authoritative introductions to these further dimensions of his endeavors as well as to many aspects of his physics and mathematics ...
... church history, and ancient chronology. This new edition of The Cambridge Companion to Newton provides authoritative introductions to these further dimensions of his endeavors as well as to many aspects of his physics and mathematics ...
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... Church was made available to the general public during his lifetime. However, his brief references to the divine “sensorium” in his Optice of 1706, and to the nature of God in his “General Scholium” to the second edition of the ...
... Church was made available to the general public during his lifetime. However, his brief references to the divine “sensorium” in his Optice of 1706, and to the nature of God in his “General Scholium” to the second edition of the ...
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... Church history, which he saw as intimately interlinked. The significance of the images in Revelation was drilled into him as a young boy in the turbulent times of the 1640s and 50s, and his deep interest in prophetic visions never waned ...
... Church history, which he saw as intimately interlinked. The significance of the images in Revelation was drilled into him as a young boy in the turbulent times of the 1640s and 50s, and his deep interest in prophetic visions never waned ...
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... Church history. As things stand, it is impossible to see how such radical differences can be subsumed under the same general approach. The fact that Newton deployed distinct modes of proof and rhetorical strategies in these fields of ...
... Church history. As things stand, it is impossible to see how such radical differences can be subsumed under the same general approach. The fact that Newton deployed distinct modes of proof and rhetorical strategies in these fields of ...
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... Church from the comfort of his private Cambridge and London closets. The question of what links exist between different areas of Newton's research can only be tackled by engaging in a more detailed empirical study of his writings ...
... Church from the comfort of his private Cambridge and London closets. The question of what links exist between different areas of Newton's research can only be tackled by engaging in a more detailed empirical study of his writings ...
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