Title | Hegel and Newtonianism [electronic resource] / edited by Michael John Petry |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1993 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1662-6 |
Descript | XIV, 793 p. online resource |
One: Metaphysics -- 1. Metaphysics and Scientific Proof: Newton and Hegel -- 2. The Conflict between Newtonโs Analysis of Configurations and Hegelโs Conceptual Analysis -- 3. Analysis, Synthesis and Dialectic: Hegelโs Answer to Aristotle, Newton and Kant -- 4. Gravity, Polarity and Dialectical Method -- 5. Hegel on the Interaction between Science and Philosophy -- 6. Hegelโs Interpretation of Classical Mechanics -- 7. The Philosophical Background to Hegelโs Criticism of Newton -- 8. The Logic of Hegelโs Philosophy of Nature -- 9. Defending Hegelโs Philosophy of Nature -- 10. Newton and Hegel: Can Science Explain the Scientist? -- 11. Newtonโs Pantokrator and Hegelโs Absolute Mind -- Two: Mathematics -- 12. The Method of Exhaustion as a Model for the Calculus -- 13. Hegel on Greek Mathematics and the Modern Calculus -- 14. Newton and British Newtonians on the Foundations of the Calculus -- 15. The Dialectical Structure of Zenoโs Arguments -- 16. Hegelโs Heritage in Applied Mathematics: A Plurality of Traditions -- 17. Hegel on Mathematics and Experimental Science -- Three: Mechanics -- 18. Inertial and Gravitational Mass: Newton, Hegel and Modern Physics -- 19. The Problem of Mass in Hegel -- 20. Pendulums in Newtonian Mechanics -- 21. Classifying the Motion: Hegel on the Pendulum -- 22. The Problem of Falling Bodies โ from Galilei to Lagrange -- 23. Hegel on Galileiโs Law of Fall -- Four: Celestial Mechanics -- 24. Eighteenth-Century Conceptions of Gravitation -- 25. Hegelโs Treatment of Universal Gravitation -- 26. The Concept of Force in Eighteenth-Century Mechanics -- 27. Hegelโs Rejection of the Concept of Force -- 28. Universal Gravitation from Elliptical Orbits -- 29. A Worm in Newtonโs Apple -- 30. The Significance of Keplerโs Laws -- Five: Optics -- 31. The Early Debate Concerning Wave-Theory -- 32. Hegel on Mechanistic Models of Light -- 33. Newtonโs Rejection of the Modification Theory of Colour -- 34. Hegelโ s Exposition of Goetheโs Theory of Colour -- 35. Newtonโs Colour-Theory and Perception -- 36. Hegel on Shadows and the Blue of the Sky -- Six: Chemistry -- 37. Newtonian Atomism and Eighteenth-Century Chemistry -- 38. Chemistry and Hegelโs Logic -- 39. Newton and Eighteenth-Century Conceptions of Chemical Affinity -- 40. The Significance of Hegelโs Treatment of Chemical Affinity -- 41. Is Nature Conformable to Herself? -- 42. Hegel on Chemistry and the Organic Sciences -- Seven: Bibliographical -- 43. Hegelโs Library: The Works on Mathematics, Mechanics, Optics and Chemistry -- 44. Hegelโs Library: The Newton Editions -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations