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The Cambridge companion to Newton /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003, Smith, George E. (George Edwin), 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Newton, Isaac, > 1642-1727.
Physics > Europe > History > 17th century.
Physics > Europe > History > 18th century.
Science > Europe > History > 17th century.
Science > Europe > History > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 / Niccolò 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.