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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... Earth is orbiting the Sun, or the Sun the Earth, and Einstein's theories do not show this. Newtonian gravity holds in the static, weak-field limit of Einsteinian gravity, so that the former bears the same sort of relationship to the ...
... Earth is orbiting the Sun, or the Sun the Earth, and Einstein's theories do not show this. Newtonian gravity holds in the static, weak-field limit of Einsteinian gravity, so that the former bears the same sort of relationship to the ...
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... Descartes would thus seem to have advanced a version of the Copernican theory, and attributed real motion to the Earth. But he equivocated on this point by his definition of “motion in the philosophical robert disalle 38.
... Descartes would thus seem to have advanced a version of the Copernican theory, and attributed real motion to the Earth. But he equivocated on this point by his definition of “motion in the philosophical robert disalle 38.
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... Earth is indeed revolving around the Sun in the vortex, but “in the philosophical sense” it is at rest, since it remains contiguous to the same particles of the fluid. Hence Descartes's assertion: “i deny the movement of the earth more ...
... Earth is indeed revolving around the Sun in the vortex, but “in the philosophical sense” it is at rest, since it remains contiguous to the same particles of the fluid. Hence Descartes's assertion: “i deny the movement of the earth more ...
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... Earth. The classical argument was simply that terrestrial phenomena seem to reveal none of the expected effects of a rapid rotation or revolution; to accept the Copernican theory, one had to grasp the idea of “indistinguishable” states ...
... Earth. The classical argument was simply that terrestrial phenomena seem to reveal none of the expected effects of a rapid rotation or revolution; to accept the Copernican theory, one had to grasp the idea of “indistinguishable” states ...
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... Earth, or the Earth the Sun; if it made no physical difference whether the interplanetary medium were at rest, or rotating in a vortex; then there would be little hope of explaining the celestial motions by the physical interactions ...
... Earth, or the Earth the Sun; if it made no physical difference whether the interplanetary medium were at rest, or rotating in a vortex; then there would be little hope of explaining the celestial motions by the physical interactions ...
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