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Title:

The Cambridge companion to Newton / edited by Rob Iliffe, University of Oxford, George E. Smith, Tufts University.

Edition:

Second edition.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xviii, 637 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Newton, Isaac,--1642-1727.
Physics--Europe--History--17th century.
Physics--Europe--History--18th century.
Science--Europe--History--17th century.
Science--Europe--History--18th century.

Other Authors:

Iliffe, Rob, editor.
Smith, George E. (George Edwin), 1938- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Rob Iliffe and George E. Smith -- 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 -- Instantaneious impulse and continuous force: the foundation of Newton's Principia -- The 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 -- A brief introduction to the mathematical work of Isaac Newton / Niccolo Guicciardini -- Newton, active powers, and the mechanical philosophy / Alan Gabbey -- A preliminary reassessment of Newton's alchemy / William R. Newman -- The religiou of Isaac Newton / Rob Iliffe -- Isaac Newton, historian / Mordechai Feingold -- Newton and eighteenth-century Christianity / Scott Mandelbrote -- Newton and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence / Domenico Bertoloni Meli -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN:

1107601746 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781107601741 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1107015464
9781107015463

OCLC:

(OCoLC)927438908

LCCN:

2015040735

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)