| Title |
The Cambridge companion to Newton / edited by I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith. |
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| Imprint |
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002. |
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| Description |
xiv, 500 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-480) and index. |
| Contents |
Newton's philosophical analysis of space and time / Robert Disalle -- Newton's concepts of force and mass, with notes on the Laws of Motion / I. Bernard Cohen -- Curvature in Newton's dynamics / J. Bruce Brackenridge and Michael Nauenberg -- Methodology of the Principia / George E. Smith -- Newton's argument for universal gravitation / William Harper -- Newton and celestial mechanics / Curtis Wilson -- Newton's optics and atomism / Alan E. Shapiro -- Newton's metaphysics / Howard Stein -- Analysis and synthesis in Newton's mathematical work / Niccolò Guicciardini -- Newton, active powers, and the mechanical philosophy / Alan Gabbey -- Background to Newton's chymistry / William Newman -- Newton's alchemy / Karin Figala -- Newton on prophecy and the Apocalypse / Maurizio Mamiani -- Newton and eighteenth-century Christianity / Scott Mandelbrote -- Newton versus Leibniz : from geomentry to metaphysics / A. Rupert Hall -- Newton and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence / Domenico Bertoloni Meli. |
| Subject(s) |
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
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Physics -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
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Physics -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
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Science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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| Alternate Author |
Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003.
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Smith, George E. (George Edwin), 1938-
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