The Cambridge Companion to Newton

Herausgeber: Iliffe, Rob; Smith, George E.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition of The Cambridge Companion to Newton includes three updated chapters, as well as a revised bibliography, new introduction and three entirely new chapters on continuous and discontinuous force in Newton's laws of motion, Newton's religion and Newton's efforts in chronology of the ancient past.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1036g
• ISBN-13: 9781107601741
• ISBN-10: 1107601746
• Artikelnr.: 44146137

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the new edition Rob Iliffe and George E. Smith
Introduction Rob Iliffe and George E. Smith
1. Newton's philosophical analysis of space and time Robert DiSalle
2. Newton's concepts of force and mass, with notes on the laws of motion Bernard Cohen
3. Instantaneous impulse and continuous force: the foundations of Newton's Principia Bruce Pourciau
4. The methodology of the Principia George E. Smith
5. Newton's argument for universal gravitation William Harper
6. Newton and celestial mechanics Curtis Wilson
7. Newton's optics and atomism Alan E. Shapiro
8. Newton's metaphysics Howard Stein
9. A brief introduction to the mathematical work of Isaac Newton Niccolò Guicciardini
10. Newton and the mechanical philosophy Alan Gabbey
11. A preliminary reassessment of Newton's alchemy William R. Newman
12. The religion of Isaac Newton Rob Iliffe
13. Isaac Newton historian Mordechai Feingold
14. Newton and eighteenth century Christianity Scott Mandelbrote
15. Newton and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence Domenico Bertoloni Meli.