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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... 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 endeavors as well as to many ...
... 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 endeavors as well as to many ...
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... alchemy william r. newman The religion of Isaac Newton rob iliffe Isaac Newton, historian mordechai feingold Newton and eighteenth-century christianity scott mandelbrote Newton and the leibniz–clarke correspondence domenico bertoloni ...
... alchemy william r. newman The religion of Isaac Newton rob iliffe Isaac Newton, historian mordechai feingold Newton and eighteenth-century christianity scott mandelbrote Newton and the leibniz–clarke correspondence domenico bertoloni ...
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... alchemy includes The “Summa Perfectionis” of PseudoGeber: A Critical Edition, Translation, and Study, and Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, An American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution. brUce POUrcIAU is Professor of ...
... alchemy includes The “Summa Perfectionis” of PseudoGeber: A Critical Edition, Translation, and Study, and Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, An American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution. brUce POUrcIAU is Professor of ...
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... alchemy and chemistry. William Newman has been analyzing the experiments Newton recorded in his notes, even reproducing some of them, and he, along with others, has continued his systematic study of alchemy in the period. On the basis ...
... alchemy and chemistry. William Newman has been analyzing the experiments Newton recorded in his notes, even reproducing some of them, and he, along with others, has continued his systematic study of alchemy in the period. On the basis ...
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... alchemy and chemistry, replacing the essays in the first edition by him and the late Karin figala. Niccolò Guicciardini's chapter on Newton's mathematics in the first edition, “Analysis and synthesis in Newton's mathematical work ...
... alchemy and chemistry, replacing the essays in the first edition by him and the late Karin figala. Niccolò Guicciardini's chapter on Newton's mathematics in the first edition, “Analysis and synthesis in Newton's mathematical work ...
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