The Cambridge Companion to NewtonI. Bernard Cohen, George E. Smith Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and the natural sciences. In this volume a team of distinguished contributors examine all the main aspects of Newton's thought, including not only his approach to space, time, mechanics, and universal gravity in his Principia, his research in optics, and his contributions to mathematics, but also his more clandestine investigations into alchemy, theology, and prophecy, which have sometimes been overshadowed by his mathematical and scientific interests. |
Contents
Introduction | |
Newtons concepts of force and mass with notes on | |
Bernard Cohen 3 Curvature in Newtons dynamics | |
Newton and celestial mechanics CurtisWilson 7 Newtons optics and atomism Alan E Shapiro | |
Newton active powers andthe mechanical | |
Newton and eighteenthcentury Christianity | |
from geometry to metaphysics | |
Index | |
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