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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... Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736, and Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method. WIllIAm HArPer is Professor of Philosophy at Western Ontario University. He has written extensively on Newton's methodology and the ...
... Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736, and Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method. WIllIAm HArPer is Professor of Philosophy at Western Ontario University. He has written extensively on Newton's methodology and the ...
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... natural philosophy and the mechanical philosophy, was that such phenomena were to be explicated in terms of known physical causes. Newton launched repeated attacks on the way that many of his contemporaries explained natural phenomena ...
... natural philosophy and the mechanical philosophy, was that such phenomena were to be explicated in terms of known physical causes. Newton launched repeated attacks on the way that many of his contemporaries explained natural phenomena ...
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... nature. These laws, which were mathematical, could then be used to explain phenomena in the relevant domain of their application. This was enough to count as explanation within natural philosophy, with no need to have recourse to as yet ...
... nature. These laws, which were mathematical, could then be used to explain phenomena in the relevant domain of their application. This was enough to count as explanation within natural philosophy, with no need to have recourse to as yet ...
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... natural philosophy, his notes on modern natural philosophers, and his very first scientific experiments, reveals how Newton very quickly spotted serious problems with the views of such authors. The research program that led to his ...
... natural philosophy, his notes on modern natural philosophers, and his very first scientific experiments, reveals how Newton very quickly spotted serious problems with the views of such authors. The research program that led to his ...
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... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society from 1672 to 1676. He was so embittered by the controversies that were engendered by these publications that he vowed to publish no further results from his research in natural philosophy ...
... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society from 1672 to 1676. He was so embittered by the controversies that were engendered by these publications that he vowed to publish no further results from his research in natural philosophy ...
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