Newton And Newtonianism


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Newton And Newtonianism


Newton And Newtonianism
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Author : J.E. Force
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-04-18

Newton And Newtonianism written by J.E. Force and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-18 with Philosophy categories.


Newton's theology, his study of alchemy, the early reception of Newtonianism, & the history of Newtonian scholarship are topics included in the eleven essays that comprise this volume.



Newton And The Culture Of Newtonianism


Newton And The Culture Of Newtonianism
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Author : Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs
language : en
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Release Date : 1995

Newton And The Culture Of Newtonianism written by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and has been published by Humanities Press International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Physics categories.


This work offers an analysis of Newton and the ways in which a culture around his work and thought can be said to have developed.



Newton S Scientific And Philosophical Legacy


Newton S Scientific And Philosophical Legacy
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Author : Paul B. Scheurer
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06

Newton S Scientific And Philosophical Legacy written by Paul B. Scheurer and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with History categories.


This volume contains the Proceedings of the International Colloqui um "Newton's Scientific and Philosophical Legacy", that was held at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands) from June 9th to 12th 1987 to celebrate the Tercentenary of the publication of Newton's Philo sophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1667). Although 1987 was a busy year for Newton scholars, we were happy that five of most prom inent among them were able to come to Nijmegen and speak on the vari ous aspects of Newton's thought. They are the Professors I. Bernard Cohen (Harvard), Gale Christianson (Indiana State), B.J. Dobbs (Northwestern), Richard H. Popkin (UCLA) and Mordechai Feingold (Boston University). No doubt, recent scholarship has put Newton's genius in a quite different perspective from the one that had come to make up what may be called Newtonian mythology. Although his achievements in the areas of mechanics, mathematics, and optics remain indisputed, Newton's scientific efforts were apparently entirely subordi nate to his religious beliefs. This volume has been divided into four parts, preceded by a Pream ble in which Prof. Christianson offers a vivid portrait of Newton as a per son. The first part deals with the science of Newton as he himself under stood that term. The second part considers the influence of Newton's work on later scientific developments. The third part deals primarily with the question of the methodological influence of Newton, and the last part with his more philosophical legacy. Two editorial remarks are due.



Reading Popular Newtonianism


Reading Popular Newtonianism
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Author : Laura Miller
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2018-06-11

Reading Popular Newtonianism written by Laura Miller and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-11 with Science categories.


Sir Isaac Newton’s publications, and those he inspired, were among the most significant works published during the long eighteenth century in Britain. Concepts such as attraction and extrapolation—detailed in his landmark monograph Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica—found their way into both scientific and cultural discourse. Understanding the trajectory of Newton’s diverse critical and popular reception in print demands consideration of how his ideas were disseminated in a marketplace comprised of readers with varying levels of interest and expertise. Reading Popular Newtonianism focuses on the reception of Newton's works in a context framed by authorship, print, editorial practices, and reading. Informed by sustained archival work and multiple critical approaches, Laura Miller asserts that print facilitated the mainstreaming of Newton's ideas. In addition to his reading habits and his manipulation of print conventions in the Principia, Miller analyzes the implied readership of various "popularizations" as well as readers traced through the New York Society Library's borrowing records. Many of the works considered—including encyclopedias, poems, and a work written "for the ladies"—are not scientifically innovative but are essential to eighteenth-century readers’ engagement with Newtonian ideas. Revising the timeline in which Newton’s scientific ideas entered eighteenth-century culture, Reading Popular Newtonianism is the first book to interrogate at length the importance of print to his consequential career.



The Newtonian Revolution


The Newtonian Revolution
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Author : I. Bernard Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1980

The Newtonian Revolution written by I. Bernard Cohen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


This volume presents Professor Cohen's original interpretation of the revolution that marked the beginnings of modern science and set Newtonian science as the model for the highest level of achievement in other branches of science. It shows that Newton developed a special kind of relation between abstract mathematical constructs and the physical systems that we observe in the world around us by means of experiment and critical observation. The heart of the radical Newtonian style is the construction on the mind of a mathematical system that has some features in common with the physical world; this system was then modified when the deductions and conclusions drawn from it are tested against the physical universe. Using this system Newton was able to make his revolutionary innovations in celestial mechanics and, ultimately, create a new physics of central forces and the law of universal gravitation. Building on his analysis of Newton's methodology, Professor Cohen explores the fine structure of revolutionary change and scientific creativity in general. This is done by developing the concept of scientific change as a series of transformations of existing ideas. It is shown that such transformation is characteristic of many aspects of the sciences and that the concept of scientific change by transformation suggests a new way of examining the very nature of scientific creativity.



The Newton Wars The Beginning Of The French Enlightenment


The Newton Wars The Beginning Of The French Enlightenment
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Author : J.B. Shank
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15

The Newton Wars The Beginning Of The French Enlightenment written by J.B. Shank and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with History categories.


Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton’s science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Terms like “Newtonianism” are routinely taken as synonyms for “Enlightenment” and “modern” thought, yet the particular conjunction of these terms has a history full of accidents and contingencies. Modern physics, for example, was not the determined result of the rational unfolding of Newton’s scientific work in the eighteenth century, nor was the Enlightenment the natural and inevitable consequence of Newton’s eighteenth-century reception. Each of these outcomes, in fact, was a contingent event produced by the particular historical developments of the early eighteenth century. A comprehensive study of public culture, The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment digsbelow the surface of the commonplace narratives that link Newton with Enlightenment thought to examine the actual historical changes that brought them together in eighteenth-century time and space. Drawing on the full range of early modern scientific sources, from studied scientific treatises and academic papers to book reviews, commentaries, and private correspondence, J. B. Shank challenges the widely accepted claim that Isaac Newton’s solitary genius is the reason for his iconic status as the father of modern physics and the philosophemovement.



The Foundations Of Newtonian Scholarship


The Foundations Of Newtonian Scholarship
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Author : Richard Henry Dalitz
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2000

The Foundations Of Newtonian Scholarship written by Richard Henry Dalitz and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Science categories.


Newtonian scholarship took great leaps forward in the second half of the 20th century. The completion of critical editions of Newton's mathematical papers and of his scientific correspondence, as well as the publication of the first volume of his optical papers and of variant readings of the "Principia" in the original Latin, have made most of Newton's scientific work available for study and analysis for the first time. This has provided a better understanding of Newton's "Principia" and "Optics" especially regarding their origin and interpretation, much of which has remained obscure for several centuries. Some of the new developments and insights are presented in this volume, by several of the scholars who have made these primary sources accessible, and by others who are using them to elucidate Newton's work. Most of the papers included were presented at the "Symposium on the Foundations of Newtonian Scholarship", held at the Royal Society in London in March 1997.



Newtonian Physics


Newtonian Physics
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Author : Benjamin Crowell
language : en
Publisher: Light and Matter
Release Date : 2001

Newtonian Physics written by Benjamin Crowell and has been published by Light and Matter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Science categories.


This book is for life-science majors who havent learned calculus or are learning it concurrently with physics.



The Newtonian Moment


The Newtonian Moment
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Author : Mordechai Feingold
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

The Newtonian Moment written by Mordechai Feingold and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Isaac Newton is a legendary figure whose mythical dimension threatens to overshadow the actual man.



Practical Matter


Practical Matter
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Author : Margaret C. Jacob
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2006-09-01

Practical Matter written by Margaret C. Jacob and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-01 with Science categories.


Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart examine the profound transformation that began in 1687. From the year when Newton published his Principia to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science gradually became central to Western thought and economic development. The book aims at a general audience and examines how, despite powerful opposition on the Continent, a Newtonian understanding gained acceptance and practical application. By the mid-eighteenth century the new science had achieved ascendancy, and the race was on to apply Newtonian mechanics to industry and manufacturing. They end the story with the temple to scientific and technological progress that was the Crystal Palace exhibition. Choosing their examples carefully, Jacob and Stewart show that there was nothing preordained or inevitable about the centrality awarded to science. "It is easy to forget that science might have been stillborn, or remained the esoteric knowledge of court elites. Instead, for better and for worse, science became a centerpiece of Western culture."