The Cambridge Companion to Newton

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500 pages, parution le 10/05/2002

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Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and the natural sciences. In this volume a team of distinguished contributors examine all the main aspects of Newton's thought, including not only his approach to space, time, mechanics, and universal gravity in his Principia, his research in optics, and his contributions to mathematics, but also his more clandestine investigations into alchemy, theology, and prophecy, which have sometimes been overshadowed by his mathematical and scientific interests.

Contents

1. Newton's philosophical analysis of space and time
2. Newton's concepts of force and mass, with notes on the law of motion
3. Curvature in Newton's dynamics
4. The methodology of the Principia
5. Newton's argument for universal gravitation
6. Newton and celestial mechanics
7. Newton's optics and atomism
8. Newton's metaphysics
9. Analysis and synthesis in Newton's mathematical work
10. Newton, active powers, and the mechanical philosophy
11. The background to Newton's chemistry
12. Newton's alchemy
13. Newton on prophecy and the apocalypse
14. Newton and eighteenth-century Christianity
15. Newton versus Leibniz: from geometry to metaphysics
16. Newton and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Collectif d'auteurs
Parution	10/05/2002
Nb. de pages	500
Format	15,5 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	721g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521656962
ISBN13	978-0-521-65696-2