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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... gravity. 138 from euler's Theoria motus corporum solidorum seu rigidorum, published in 1765, a figure drawn to illustrate what he calls the basic “ground of measuring” forces. 140 Newton's figure for Proposition 1 and its demonstration ...
... gravity. 138 from euler's Theoria motus corporum solidorum seu rigidorum, published in 1765, a figure drawn to illustrate what he calls the basic “ground of measuring” forces. 140 Newton's figure for Proposition 1 and its demonstration ...
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... gravity while contemplating the fall of an apple in his mother's garden when away from Cambridge during the plague. Newton definitely did give careful thought at some point during the late 1660s to the possibility that terrestrial gravity ...
... gravity while contemplating the fall of an apple in his mother's garden when away from Cambridge during the plague. Newton definitely did give careful thought at some point during the late 1660s to the possibility that terrestrial gravity ...
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... gravity according to which the forces on orbiting bodies are proportional to the masses of the distant bodies toward which these forces are directed; and finally to the sweeping claim that there are gravitational forces between every ...
... gravity according to which the forces on orbiting bodies are proportional to the masses of the distant bodies toward which these forces are directed; and finally to the sweeping claim that there are gravitational forces between every ...
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... gravity holds in the static, weak-field limit of Einsteinian gravity, so that the former bears the same sort of relationship to the latter that Galilean uniform gravity bears to Newtonian gravity, allowing the evidence for the earlier ...
... gravity holds in the static, weak-field limit of Einsteinian gravity, so that the former bears the same sort of relationship to the latter that Galilean uniform gravity bears to Newtonian gravity, allowing the evidence for the earlier ...
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... gravity was not one of them. This is clear from his correspondence with the Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, following the appearance of the “Great Comet” at the end of 1680. Flamsteed initially suggested that two objects seen in ...
... gravity was not one of them. This is clear from his correspondence with the Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, following the appearance of the “Great Comet” at the end of 1680. Flamsteed initially suggested that two objects seen in ...
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