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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... doctrine of universal gravitation, and the notion of “attraction” that underlay it, wholly unacceptable. It was easy for his most adept commentators to reject the idea of objects attracting each other immediately over vast distances as ...
... doctrine of universal gravitation, and the notion of “attraction” that underlay it, wholly unacceptable. It was easy for his most adept commentators to reject the idea of objects attracting each other immediately over vast distances as ...
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... doctrine of the Trinity, which he believed was an incomprehensible, polytheistic and diabolical notion that polluted all orthodox forms of Christianity. Since there were legal penalties and social costs associated with voicing such ...
... doctrine of the Trinity, which he believed was an incomprehensible, polytheistic and diabolical notion that polluted all orthodox forms of Christianity. Since there were legal penalties and social costs associated with voicing such ...
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... doctrine of the Trinity. Like many of his contemporaries, Newton believed that the mysterious internal order of the apocalyptic images could be decoded by recourse to the right sort of “key.” There were ready exegetical techniques for ...
... doctrine of the Trinity. Like many of his contemporaries, Newton believed that the mysterious internal order of the apocalyptic images could be decoded by recourse to the right sort of “key.” There were ready exegetical techniques for ...
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