The Investigation of difficult things : essays on Newton and the history of the exact sciences in honour of D.T. Whiteside /
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Lunar velocity in the Ptolemaic tradition / Bernard R. Goldstein
- Shadow measurement : the Sciametria from Kepler's Hipparchus : a translation with commentary / N.M. Swerdlow
- Descartes, Pappus' problem, and the Cartesian parabola : a conjecture / Henk J.M. Bos
- Honoré Fabry (1607-1688) als Mathematiker : Eine Reprise / Emil A. Fellmann
- Sotheby's, Keynes and Yahuda : the 1936 sale of Newton's manuscripts / P.E. Spargo
- De scriptoribus chemicis : sources for the establishment of Isaac Newton's (al)chemical library / Karin Figala, John Harrison and Ulrich Petzold
- Beyond the dating game : watermark clusters and the composition of Newton's Opticks / Alan E. Shapiro
- The critical role of curvature in Newton's developing dynamics / J. Bruce Brackenridge
- Newton and the absolutes : sources / A. Rupert Hall.
- Newton's ontology of the force of inertia / Zev Bechler
- Newton's Mathematical principles of natural philosophy : a treatise on 'mechanics'? / Alan Gabbey
- The review of the first edition of Newton's Principia in the Acta eruditorum, with notes on the other reviews / I. Bernard Cohen
- Newton, Cotes, and [square root square root]2 : a footnote to Newton's theory of the resistance of fluids / D.H. Fowler
- A study of spirals : Cotes and Varignon / Ronald Gowing
- The fragmentation of the European mathematical community / Lenore Feigenbaum
- Euler on action-at-a-distance and fundamental equations in continuum mechanics / Curtis Wilson
- St Peter and the rotation of the earth : the problem of fall around 1800 / Domenico Bertoloni Meli
- Why Stokes never wrote a treatise on optics / Jed Z. Buchwald
- Maxwell and Saturn's rings : problems of stability and calculability / P.M. Harman.
- Poincaré, topological dynamics, and the stability of the solar system / Jeremy Gray.