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The Cambridge companion to Newton
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- Creator
- edited by I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 500 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521651776, 0521651778, 9780521656962, 0521656966
- OCLC
- ocm47221828
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-480) and index.
- 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