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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... 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 generally and on Newton in particular, including The Newtonian Revolution, and ...
... 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 generally and on Newton in particular, including The Newtonian Revolution, and ...
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... cohen and George e. Smith, who started it afresh. The first edition was published in 2002 and has received wide circulation. In the case of several of its chapters, research since then has not yielded sufficient reasons to make ...
... cohen and George e. Smith, who started it afresh. The first edition was published in 2002 and has received wide circulation. In the case of several of its chapters, research since then has not yielded sufficient reasons to make ...
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... cohen, who was fully aware of the manuscript from the early 1690s, elected to ignore it in his chapter in the first edition of this Companion and chose instead to restrict himself to the actual statement of the law in the Principia ...
... cohen, who was fully aware of the manuscript from the early 1690s, elected to ignore it in his chapter in the first edition of this Companion and chose instead to restrict himself to the actual statement of the law in the Principia ...
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... Cohen shows in his chapter, a necessary precondition for his conception of universal gravitation was his creation of the new concepts of mass and force, which were also required for his laws of motion, a topic examined in Bruce ...
... Cohen shows in his chapter, a necessary precondition for his conception of universal gravitation was his creation of the new concepts of mass and force, which were also required for his laws of motion, a topic examined in Bruce ...
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... Cohen, Pourciau, Shapiro, and Stein, it is the central topic in the chapters by William Harper and George Smith. N. ewton. the. mathematician. Newton's achievements in mathematics were extraordinary, yet his impact on the history of ...
... Cohen, Pourciau, Shapiro, and Stein, it is the central topic in the chapters by William Harper and George Smith. N. ewton. the. mathematician. Newton's achievements in mathematics were extraordinary, yet his impact on the history of ...
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