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The Cambridge companion to Newton / edited by I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith.

Contributor(s): Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003 | Smith, George E. (George Edwin), 1938-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, England ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xiv, 500 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521656966 (paperback); 9780521656962 (paperback)Subject(s): Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 | Physics -- Europe -- History -- 17th century | Physics -- Europe -- History -- 18th century | Science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century | Science -- Europe -- History -- 18th centuryDDC classification: 530/.092 LOC classification: QC16 .N7 | C35 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / I. Bernard Cohen 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 -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / I. Bernard Cohen 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 -- 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.

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