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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... direction of motion and the reproduced figure that Newton drew to illustrate the application of his first two laws to a force in the direction of motion. 127 The figure used in the Principia to illustrate corollary 1 of the laws. 130 ...
... direction of motion and the reproduced figure that Newton drew to illustrate the application of his first two laws to a force in the direction of motion. 127 The figure used in the Principia to illustrate corollary 1 of the laws. 130 ...
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... direction of motion. 134 3.11 The figure, redrawn with our notation, used in the Principia to illustrate the motion of a body projected along the line PL and acted on by uniform gravity. 138 from euler's Theoria motus corporum solidorum ...
... direction of motion. 134 3.11 The figure, redrawn with our notation, used in the Principia to illustrate the motion of a body projected along the line PL and acted on by uniform gravity. 138 from euler's Theoria motus corporum solidorum ...
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... direction was reversed. Moreover, no magnet-type mechanism could explain this sudden cometary volte face. Putting both of these insights together, Newton suggested that if it was really the same comet then it must have gone around the ...
... direction was reversed. Moreover, no magnet-type mechanism could explain this sudden cometary volte face. Putting both of these insights together, Newton suggested that if it was really the same comet then it must have gone around the ...
Síða 42
... direction, no real difference would be made; therefore (again by the Principle of the identity of indiscernibles), space cannot be absolute. Here again, however, in the definition of absolute space given by Newton, no such difference is ...
... direction, no real difference would be made; therefore (again by the Principle of the identity of indiscernibles), space cannot be absolute. Here again, however, in the definition of absolute space given by Newton, no such difference is ...
Síða 45
... direction until it is “strongly twisted”; then, turn the bucket in the contrary direction and let the rope untwist. As the bucket now rotates, the surface of the water will initially be flat, but relative to the bucket, it is rotating ...
... direction until it is “strongly twisted”; then, turn the bucket in the contrary direction and let the rope untwist. As the bucket now rotates, the surface of the water will initially be flat, but relative to the bucket, it is rotating ...
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