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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... inertia. Abandoning Newtonian space and time in the manner Leibniz called for would entail abandoning the law of inertia as formulated in the seventeenth century, a law at the heart of Leibniz's dynamics. In gaining ascendancy over ...
... inertia. Abandoning Newtonian space and time in the manner Leibniz called for would entail abandoning the law of inertia as formulated in the seventeenth century, a law at the heart of Leibniz's dynamics. In gaining ascendancy over ...
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... inertia). It was also during this early period that Newton independently discovered the υ2/r rule for uniform circular motion, a few years before Christiaan Huygens, who had discovered it in 1659, published it in rob iliffe and george e ...
... inertia). It was also during this early period that Newton independently discovered the υ2/r rule for uniform circular motion, a few years before Christiaan Huygens, who had discovered it in 1659, published it in rob iliffe and george e ...
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... inertia – that enable us to connect that structure with experience. in other words, conceptions of space and time are not arbitrary metaphysical hypotheses appended to otherwise empirical physics; they are assumptions implicit in the ...
... inertia – that enable us to connect that structure with experience. in other words, conceptions of space and time are not arbitrary metaphysical hypotheses appended to otherwise empirical physics; they are assumptions implicit in the ...
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... inertia. Evidently this might have been otherwise: if the laws of physics measured force by velocity rather than acceleration, then dynamics could identify which bodies are truly at rest. Then we would have the physical definition of ...
... inertia. Evidently this might have been otherwise: if the laws of physics measured force by velocity rather than acceleration, then dynamics could identify which bodies are truly at rest. Then we would have the physical definition of ...
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... inertia and force. And forces, as we have seen, can distinguish between acceleration and uniform motion, but not between “absolute motion” and “absolute rest.” The causes that distinguish absolute from relative motion are “the forces ...
... inertia and force. And forces, as we have seen, can distinguish between acceleration and uniform motion, but not between “absolute motion” and “absolute rest.” The causes that distinguish absolute from relative motion are “the forces ...
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