Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy

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Jed Z. Buchwald, I. Bernard Cohen
MIT Press, 2001 - 354 עמודים

Newton studies have undergone radical changes in the last half-century as more of his work has been uncovered and more details of his life and intellectual context have come to light. This volume singles out two strands in recent Newton studies: the intellectual background to Newton's scientific thought and both specific and general aspects of his technical science. The essays make new claims concerning Newton's mathematical methods, experimental investigations, and motivations, as well as the effect that his long presence had on science in England.

The book is divided into two parts. The essays in part I shed new light on Newton's motivations and the sources of his method. The essays in part II explore Newton's mathematical philosophy and his development of rational mechanics and celestial dynamics. An appendix includes the last paper by Newton biographer Richard W. Westfall, examining some of the ways that mathematics came to be used in the age of Newton in pursuits and domains other than theoretical or rational mechanics.

 

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NEWTONS REGULAE
3
NEWTONS EXPERIments on DIFFRACTION AND
47
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
77
A CROOKED PATH MADE
105
NEWTON ON THE MOONS VARIATION AND APSIDAL
139
NEWTONS PERTURBATION METHODS FOR
189
FORCE CONTINUITY AND THE MATHEMATIZATION
225
THE NEWTONIAN STYLE IN BOOK II OF
249
NEWTON ON FLUID RESISTANCE IN THE FIRST
299
SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF RICHARD SAMUEL WESTFALL
317
INDEX
341
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מידע על המחבר (2001)

Jed Z. Buchwald is Director of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in Far Rockaway, New York, I. Bernard Cohen earned degrees from Harvard University. He holds the distinction of being the first person in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in the history of science. Later, Cohen established the History of Science Department at Harvard. Cohen has received many fellowships and has won the George Sarton Medal, awarded by the History of Science Society. Cohen is an author and editor, known for his books about Sir Isaac Newton and Benjamin Franklin.

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