TitleThe Cambridge companion to Newton [electronic resource] / edited by I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith
Imprint Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002
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Descript xiv, 500 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

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 / Niccolแo 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

  1. Newton
  2. Isaac
  3. Sir
  4. 1642-1727
  5. Physics -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
  6. Physics -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
  7. Science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
  8. Science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
  9. Newton
  10. Isaacc
  11. Sir
  12. 1642-1727
  13. Fโisica Europa Historia Siglo XVII
  14. Fโisica Europa Historia Siglo XVIII
  15. Cienica Europa Historia Siglo XVII
  16. Electronic books.