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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... Opticks in 1717. Most importantly, however, Newton brought together an empiricist, inductivist and anti-hypotheticalist sensibility from his immersion in the writings of Hooke and Boyle with a commitment to a mathematical approach to ...
... Opticks in 1717. Most importantly, however, Newton brought together an empiricist, inductivist and anti-hypotheticalist sensibility from his immersion in the writings of Hooke and Boyle with a commitment to a mathematical approach to ...
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... ” although this was only published in 1704 (in order to assert his priority in the area) as an addition to the first edition of Opticks. He also continued experimental research in alchemy and performed novel introduction 9.
... ” although this was only published in 1704 (in order to assert his priority in the area) as an addition to the first edition of Opticks. He also continued experimental research in alchemy and performed novel introduction 9.
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... Opticks. His best scientific work in this period was on the theory of the Moon's motion, carried out in the middle of the 1690s. This was the last piece of innovative work in the natural sciences that he undertook, though it ultimately ...
... Opticks. His best scientific work in this period was on the theory of the Moon's motion, carried out in the middle of the 1690s. This was the last piece of innovative work in the natural sciences that he undertook, though it ultimately ...
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... Opticks appeared in 1717/18 (and posthumously in 1730). He also produced a third edition of the Principia, when he was 83 years old. It does not differ in essentials from the second edition, the main change being some new text based on ...
... Opticks appeared in 1717/18 (and posthumously in 1730). He also produced a third edition of the Principia, when he was 83 years old. It does not differ in essentials from the second edition, the main change being some new text based on ...
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... Opticks, which have indeed been widely heralded as examples of experimental science at its best, are rarely seen as the culminations of a much wider range of experiments that complement and support them. Great skill in experimental ...
... Opticks, which have indeed been widely heralded as examples of experimental science at its best, are rarely seen as the culminations of a much wider range of experiments that complement and support them. Great skill in experimental ...
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