The Investigation of difficult things : essays on Newton and the history of the exact sciences in honour of D.T. Whiteside /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Harman, P. M. (Peter Michael), 1943-, Shapiro, Alan E. (Alan Elihu), 1942-, Whiteside, D. T. (Derek Thomas)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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
  • HonorĂ© 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.
  • PoincarĂ©, topological dynamics, and the stability of the solar system / Jeremy Gray.