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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... physical causes. Newton launched repeated attacks on the way that many of his contemporaries explained natural phenomena by means of what he called “hypothetical” metaphysical or physical entities such as “corpuscles” or the “aether ...
... physical causes. Newton launched repeated attacks on the way that many of his contemporaries explained natural phenomena by means of what he called “hypothetical” metaphysical or physical entities such as “corpuscles” or the “aether ...
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... physical objectivity.”1 The philosophical motivation for this viewpoint seems obvious. Space cannot be observed; all that we can observe is the relative displacement of observable things. Therefore, if we observe two bodies in relative ...
... physical objectivity.”1 The philosophical motivation for this viewpoint seems obvious. Space cannot be observed; all that we can observe is the relative displacement of observable things. Therefore, if we observe two bodies in relative ...
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... physically objective” structure open to objective empirical investigation. Moreover, the theory does indeed make “absolute ... physical assumptions – primarily about the nature newton's philosophical analysis of space and time 35.
... physically objective” structure open to objective empirical investigation. Moreover, the theory does indeed make “absolute ... physical assumptions – primarily about the nature newton's philosophical analysis of space and time 35.
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... physical theory distinguish between absolute rotation and relative rotation?” and “is there an equally good or a better physical theory that dispenses with absolute rotation, or that refers only to relative motions?”3 From this point of ...
... physical theory distinguish between absolute rotation and relative rotation?” and “is there an equally good or a better physical theory that dispenses with absolute rotation, or that refers only to relative motions?”3 From this point of ...
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... physical theory does make claims about space, time, and motion, do we not nonetheless have independent philosophical grounds to doubt their “absolute” status? For it seems absurd that any argument about observed spatial relations could ...
... physical theory does make claims about space, time, and motion, do we not nonetheless have independent philosophical grounds to doubt their “absolute” status? For it seems absurd that any argument about observed spatial relations could ...
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