Author: Isaac BarrowPublisher:
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Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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The Works of the Learned Isaac Barrow ...
Author: Isaac BarrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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“The” Works of the Learned Isaac Barrow
Author: Isaac BarrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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The Works of the learned Isaac Barrow, D.D. ... Being all his English works ... Published by His Grace, Dr. John Tillotson. With"Some Account of the Life of Dr. Isaac Barrow,"signed: A. H., i.e. Abraham Hill
Author: Isaac BarrowThe Mathematical Works
Author: Isaac BarrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Curves, Plane
Languages : en
Pages :
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Before Newton
Author: Mordechai FeingoldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521306942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A comprehensive reevaluation of Isaac Barrow (1630-1677), one of the more prominent and intriguing of all seventeenth-century men of science. Barrow is remembered today--if at all--only as Sir Isaac Newton's mentor and patron, but he in fact made important contributions to the disciplines of optics and geometry. Moreover, he was a prolific and influential preacher as well as a renowned classical scholar. By seeking to understand Barrow's mathematical work, primarily within the confines of the pre-Newtonian scientific framework, the book offers a substantial rethinking of his scientific acumen. In addition to providing a biographical study of Barrow, it explores the intimate connections among his scientific, philological, and religious worldviews in an attempt to convey the complexity of the seventeenth-century culture that gave rise to Isaac Barrow, a breed of polymath that would become increasingly rare with the advent of modern science.
The Geometrical Lectures of Isaac Barrow
Author: Isaac BarrowPublisher:
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Category : Geometry
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method
Author: Niccolo GuicciardiniPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262291657
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
An analysis of Newton's mathematical work, from early discoveries to mature reflections, and a discussion of Newton's views on the role and nature of mathematics. Historians of mathematics have devoted considerable attention to Isaac Newton's work on algebra, series, fluxions, quadratures, and geometry. In Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method, Niccolò Guicciardini examines a critical aspect of Newton's work that has not been tightly connected to Newton's actual practice: his philosophy of mathematics. Newton aimed to inject certainty into natural philosophy by deploying mathematical reasoning (titling his main work The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy most probably to highlight a stark contrast to Descartes's Principles of Philosophy). To that end he paid concerted attention to method, particularly in relation to the issue of certainty, participating in contemporary debates on the subject and elaborating his own answers. Guicciardini shows how Newton carefully positioned himself against two giants in the “common” and “new” analysis, Descartes and Leibniz. Although his work was in many ways disconnected from the traditions of Greek geometry, Newton portrayed himself as antiquity's legitimate heir, thereby distancing himself from the moderns. Guicciardini reconstructs Newton's own method by extracting it from his concrete practice and not solely by examining his broader statements about such matters. He examines the full range of Newton's works, from his early treatises on series and fluxions to the late writings, which were produced in direct opposition to Leibniz. The complex interactions between Newton's understanding of method and his mathematical work then reveal themselves through Guicciardini's careful analysis of selected examples. Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method uncovers what mathematics was for Newton, and what being a mathematician meant to him.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Divine Revelation - Or Pseudo-science? An Essay
Author: Robert George Suckling BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated
Author: Isaac BarrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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