Author: SaundersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Method of Fluxions Applied to a Select Number of Useful Problems
The Method of Fluxions Applied to a Select Number of Useful Problems: Together with the Demonstration of Cotes's Forms of Fluents in the Second Part of His Logometria; the Analysis of the Problems in His Scholium Generale; and an Explanation of the Principal Propositions of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy
Author: Nicholas SAUNDERSONThe method of fluxions applied to a select number of useful problems [&c.].
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Author: Nicholas SaundersonScience, Philosophy and Religion in the Age of the Enlightenment
Author: John GascoignePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040234224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this second collection of articles by John Gascoigne explores this movement's filiation and influence in a range of contexts. In contrast to some recently influential views it emphasises the evolutionary rather than the revolutionary character of the Enlightenment and its ability to change society by adaptation rather than demolition. This it does by reference, firstly, to developments in Britain tracing the changing views of history in relation to the Biblical account, the ideological uses of science (and particularly the work of Newton) and their connections to developments in moral philosophy and the teaching of science and philosophy in response to Enlightenment modes of thought. The collection then turns to the wider global setting of the Enlightenment and the way in which that movement served to provide a justification for European exploration and expansion, developments which found one of their most potent embodiments in the diverse uses of mapping. The collection concludes with an exploration of the interplay between the experience of Pacific contact and the currents of thought which characterised the Enlightenment in Germany.
From Newton to Hawking
Author: Kevin C. KnoxPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521663106
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Cambridge University's Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics is one of the world's most celebrated academic positions. Since its foundation in 1663, the chair has been held by seventeen men who represent some of the most influential minds in science and technology. Principally a social history of mathematics and physics, the story of these great natural philosophers and mathematical physicists is told here by some of the finest historians of science. This informative work offers new perspectives on world famous scientists including Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac, and Stephen Hawking.
The Method of Fluxions Applied to a Select Number of Useful Problems: Together with The Demonstration of Mr. Cotes's Forms of Fluents in the Second Part of His Logometria ; The Analysis of the Problems in His Scholium Generale ; and An Explanation of the Principal Propositions of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy. By Nicholas Saunderson, LL. D. Late Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambrdige. Illustrated with Twelve Copper Plates
Author: Nicholas SaundersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calculus
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Cavendish
Author: Christa JungnickelPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754450
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
"The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--BOOK JACKET.
Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y..
Author: United States Military Academy. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Development of Newtonian Calculus in Britain, 1700-1800
Author: Niccol- GuicciardiniPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This book examines how calculus developed in Britain during the century following Newton.
Author: Library of Congress