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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... claim that makes no sense in the case of discrete forces. In a series of articles since the first edition of this Companion, Pourciau has argued that Newton himself provided a way of resolving this conflict in an unpublished manuscript ...
... claim that makes no sense in the case of discrete forces. In a series of articles since the first edition of this Companion, Pourciau has argued that Newton himself provided a way of resolving this conflict in an unpublished manuscript ...
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... claim that almost all of the cosmos (including the internal structure of bodies) was entirely empty of matter, however, was deeply unpalatable to those committed to plenist and vortical accounts. Worst of all, many found Newton's great ...
... claim that almost all of the cosmos (including the internal structure of bodies) was entirely empty of matter, however, was deeply unpalatable to those committed to plenist and vortical accounts. Worst of all, many found Newton's great ...
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... claim in turn. Even the most outspoken critics of universal gravitation thought Newton had established some of the claims in the sequence. Though they balked at different points, the common feature was where they thought concession of a ...
... claim in turn. Even the most outspoken critics of universal gravitation thought Newton had established some of the claims in the sequence. Though they balked at different points, the common feature was where they thought concession of a ...
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... claims about the relativity of space. For Leibniz denied that there can be any fact of the matter about whether the Earth is orbiting the Sun, or the Sun the Earth, and Einstein's theories do not show this. Newtonian gravity holds in ...
... claims about the relativity of space. For Leibniz denied that there can be any fact of the matter about whether the Earth is orbiting the Sun, or the Sun the Earth, and Einstein's theories do not show this. Newtonian gravity holds in ...
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... claims. Perhaps all that could be hoped for, as Robert Boyle proposed, was to describe the world accurately in the manner of a natural history, with purely theoretical claims never rising above the status of conjectural hypotheses not ...
... claims. Perhaps all that could be hoped for, as Robert Boyle proposed, was to describe the world accurately in the manner of a natural history, with purely theoretical claims never rising above the status of conjectural hypotheses not ...
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