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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... rest a series of myths about the nature of Newton's “chymical” research, including the claim that his ideas of chemical force were the basis of his theory of universal gravitation; the belief that the conceptual elements of his ...
... rest a series of myths about the nature of Newton's “chymical” research, including the claim that his ideas of chemical force were the basis of his theory of universal gravitation; the belief that the conceptual elements of his ...
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... Rest, so appropriate. This work ethic is the third feature of his approach to his studies, and only someone for whom hard intellectual labor was a core aspect of his religious life could have devoted himself so intensively to his ...
... Rest, so appropriate. This work ethic is the third feature of his approach to his studies, and only someone for whom hard intellectual labor was a core aspect of his religious life could have devoted himself so intensively to his ...
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... Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980). The chemical notebook is now CUL Add. Ms. 3975, while another series of experiments are recorded in CUL Add. Ms. 3973. “Of Nature's Obvious Laws ...
... Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980). The chemical notebook is now CUL Add. Ms. 3975, while another series of experiments are recorded in CUL Add. Ms. 3973. “Of Nature's Obvious Laws ...
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... Rest, esp. pp. 281–309 and 524–31. Manuel's Fremantle lectures on Newton's religion were published as The Religion of Isaac Newton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974). For more on this issue see Rob Iliffe, “'Abstract Considerations ...
... Rest, esp. pp. 281–309 and 524–31. Manuel's Fremantle lectures on Newton's religion were published as The Religion of Isaac Newton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974). For more on this issue see Rob Iliffe, “'Abstract Considerations ...
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... rest in absolute space,” or to determine the “absolute velocity” of any thing. Therefore newton's laws require not absolute space, but a four-dimensional structure known as “newtonian spacetime.” A straight line of this structure ...
... rest in absolute space,” or to determine the “absolute velocity” of any thing. Therefore newton's laws require not absolute space, but a four-dimensional structure known as “newtonian spacetime.” A straight line of this structure ...
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