Isaac Newton

Newton's Philosophy of Nature

Selections from His Writings
Herausgeber: Thayer, H S

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A wide, accessible representation of the interests, problems, and philosophic issues that preoccupied the great 17th-century scientist, this collection is grouped according to methods, principles, and theological considerations. 1953 edition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780486445939
• ISBN-10: 0486445933
• Artikelnr.: 21483009

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Preface Introduction: What Isaac Newton Started Selections from
Newton I. The Method of Natural Philosophy 1. Rules of Reasoning in
Philosophy 2. On Hypotheses 3. The Experimental Method II. Fundamental
Principles of Natural Philosophy 1. Newton's Preface to the First Edition
of the Principia 2. Definitions and Scholium 3. Axioms, or Laws of Motion
4. The Motion of Bodies III. God and Natural Philosophy 1. General Scholium
2. God and Gravity 3. On Creation 4. On Universal Design IV. Questions on
Natural Philosophy 1. The New Theory about Light and Colors 2. On the
Science of Colors 3. Hypothesis Touching on the Theory of Light and Colors
4. Perception 5. On Gravity 6. Cotes' Preface to the Second Edition of the
Principia V. Questions from the "Optics" Notes Selected Bibliography