Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe

Herausgeber: Boran, Elizabethanne A; Feingold, Mordechai

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe investigates how, when, where and why Newton's Principia was interpreted by readers in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, England and Ireland. University textbooks and popular simplified vernacular texts created new audiences for early modern science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9789004336643
• ISBN-10: 9004336648
• Artikelnr.: 47013879

Autorenporträt

Elizabethanne Boran, Ph. D. (1996), Trinity College, Dublin, is Librarian of the Edward Worth Library, Dublin. She is the editor of The Correspondence of James Ussher, 1600-1656, 3 vols (Dublin, 2015) and Aldines at the Edward Worth Library (Dublin, 2015). Mordechai Feingold is Professor of History at Caltech. He is the editor of the journals Erudition and the republic of Letters (Brill) and History of Universities (Oxford). He is the author of a number of books, including The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560-1640 (1984); The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (2004); and Newton and the Origin of Civilization (2013), written with Jed Buchwald.