Author: History of Science SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physicists
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Sir Isaac Newton, 1727-1927
Author: History of Science SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physicists
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World
Author: Isaac NewtonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520009295
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
I consider philosophy rather than arts and write not concerning manual but natural powers, and consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy.In the third book I give an example of this in the explication of the System of the World. I derive from celestial phenomena the forces of gravity with which bodies tend to the sun and other planets.
Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophyand his System of the World
Author: Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World
Author: Sir Isaac NewtonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321723
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1934.
Isaac Newton
Author: James GleickPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400032954
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them names—mass, gravity, velocity—things our science now takes for granted. Inspired by Aristotle, spurred on by Galileo’s discoveries and the philosophy of Descartes, Newton grasped the intangible and dared to take its measure, a leap of the mind unparalleled in his generation. James Gleick, the author of Chaos and Genius, and one of the most acclaimed science writers of his generation, brings the reader into Newton’s reclusive life and provides startlingly clear explanations of the concepts that changed forever our perception of bodies, rest, and motion—ideas so basic to the twenty-first century, it can truly be said: We are all Newtonians.
Sir Isaac Newton, 1727-1927
Author: History of Science SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physicists
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Introduction, by D.E. Smith.--Newton in the light of modern criticism, by D.E. Smith.--Newton and optics, by D.C. Miller.--Newton's philosophy of gravitation with special reference to modern relativity ideas, by G.D. Brikhoff.--Newton's influence upon the development of astrophysics, by W.W. Campbell.--Newton's dynamics, by M.I. Pupin.--Newton as an experimental philosopher, by P.R. Heyl.--Developments following from Newton's work, by E.W. Brown.--Newton's twenty years' delay in announcing the law of gravitation, by F. Cajori.--Newton's fluxions, by F. Cajori.--Newton's work in alchemy and chemistry, by L.C. Newell.--Newton's place in the history of religious thought, by G.S. Brett.--Newton in the mint, G.E. Roberts.--Newton's first critical disciple in the American colonies--John Winthrop, by F.E. Brasch.--Appendix : Program of the meeting at which the above papers were presented. Material displayed in the Newton exhibit at the American museum of natural history November and December, 1927.
Religion, Science, and Worldview
Author: Margaret J. OslerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524933
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This collection of original essays honors Richard S. Westfall, a highly influential scholar in the history of the physical sciences and their relations with religion. It is divided into three parts: the life, work, and influence of Newton; science and religion; and historiographical and social studies of science.
Science
Author: Newton, his Friends and his Foes
Author: A. Rupert HallPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040235689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Over the last forty years Professor Hall has been a major contributor to the ’new view’ of Newton now generally accepted. Essentially this has derived from the bringing to light and examination of Newton’s vast, but long neglected legacy of manuscripts, and the first studies in this volume illustrate the wealth of information these provide on the earliest phases of his great discoveries in mathematics and science. In particular, they confirm the intensity and originality of Newton’s investigations before and through the ’anni mirabiles’ of 1665-66. Further papers then deal with his relations with contemporaries such as Hooke, Leibniz and Huyghens, again making extensive use of unpublished manuscript material, and with the developing influence of his work. Durant les quarante dernières années, le professeur Hall a été l’un des plus importants contributeurs à la nouvelle appréciation de l’oeuvre de Newton, qui est de nos jours la plus généralement acceptée. Ceci provient essentiellement de l’examen du vaste héritage de manuscrits laissés par Newton et très longtemps négligé; les premières études de ce volume illustrent la richesse d’informations contenues dans ceux-ci quant aux toutes premières phases de ses grandes découvertes dans le domaine des mathématiques et de le science. Ils confirment en particulier l’intensité et l’originalité des recherches de Newton avant et pendant les anni mirabiles de 1665-66. S’ajoutent à ceci plusieurs études, où il est à nouveau fait grand usage de manuscrits inédits, traitant des rapports qu’il entretenait avec ses contemporains tels, Hooke, Leibniz et Huyghens, ainsi que de l’influence progressive de ses travaux.
A History of Science Technology and Philosophy in the 16 and 17th Centuries
Author: Abraham WolfPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042959626X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Published in 1935: This is the first attempt to give a full portrait if the mind of the 16th and 17th centuries. Detailed accounts are given of all that is important in the first two centuries of modern science and philosophy.