The Newtonian Revolution
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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 Newtonian Revolution With Illustrations Of The Transformation Of Scientific Ideas
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Author : Irwin Bernard Cohen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Newtonian Revolution With Illustrations Of The Transformation Of Scientific Ideas written by Irwin Bernard Cohen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Physics, History categories.
Contemporary Newtonian Research
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Author : Z. Bechler
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Contemporary Newtonian Research written by Z. Bechler 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 Science categories.
them in his cheat-preface to Copernicus De Revolutionibus, but the main change in their import has been that whereas Osiander defended Copernicus, Mach and Duhem defended science. The modem conception of hypothetico deductive science is, again, geared to defend the respectability of science in much the same way: the physical interpretation, it says, is merely and always hypothetical, and so the scientist is never really committed to it. Hence, when science sheds the physical interpretation off its mathematical skeleton as time and refutation catch up with it, the scientist is not really caught in error, for he never was committed to this interpretation in the first place. This is the apologetic essence of present day, Popper-like, versions of the idea of science as a mathematical-core-cum-interpretational shell. This is also Cohen's view, for it aims to free Newton of any existential commitment to which his theory might allegedly commit him. It will be readily seen that Cohen regards this methodological distinction between mathematics and physics to be the backbone of the Newtonian revolution in science (which is, in its tum, the climax of the whole Scientific Revolution) for a very clear reason: it enables us to argue that Newton could use freely the new concept of centripetal force, even though he did not be lieve in physical action at a distance and could not conceive how such a force could act to produce its effects". ([3] pp.
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."
Seduced By Logic
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Author : Robyn Arianrhod
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Seduced By Logic written by Robyn Arianrhod and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Science categories.
Newton's explanation of the natural law of universal gravity shattered the way mankind perceived the universe, and hence it was not immediately embraced. After all, how can anyone warm to a force that cannot be seen or touched? But for two women, separated by time and space but joined in their passion for Newtonian physics, the intellectual power of that force drove them to great achievements. Brilliant, determined, and almost entirely self-taught, they dedicated their lives to explaining and disseminating Newton's discoveries. Robyn Arianrhod's Seduced by Logic tells the story of Emilie du Chatelet and Mary Somerville, who, despite living a century apart, were connected by their love for mathematics and their places at the heart of the most advanced scientific society of their age. When Newton published his revolutionary theory of gravity, in his monumental Principia of 1687, most of his Continental peers rejected it for its reliance on physical observation and mathematical insight instead of religious or metaphysical hypotheses. But the brilliant French aristocrat and intellectual Emilie du Chatelet and some of her early eighteenth-century Enlightenment colleagues--including her lover, Voltaire--realized the Principia had changed everything, marking the beginning of theoretical science as a predictive, quantitative, and secular discipline. Emilie devoted herself to furthering Newton's ideas in France, and her translation of the Principia is still the accepted French version of this groundbreaking work. Almost a century later, in Scotland, Mary Somerville taught herself mathematics and rose from genteel poverty to become a world authority on Newtonian physics. She was fêted by the famous French Newtonian, Pierre Simon Laplace, whose six-volume Celestial Mechanics was considered the greatest intellectual achievement since the Principia. Laplace's work was the basis of Mary's first book, Mechanism of the Heavens; it is a bittersweet irony that this book, written by a woman denied entry to university because of her gender, remained an advanced university astronomy text for the next century. Combining biography, history, and popular science, Seduced by Logic not only reveals the fascinating story of two incredibly talented women, but also brings to life a period of dramatic political and scientific change. With lucidity and skill, Arianrhod explains the science behind the story, and explores - through the lives of her protagonists - the intimate links between the unfolding Newtonian revolution and the development of intellectual and political liberty.
Newtonian Revolution In Science And Its Intellectual Significance
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Author : I. Bernard Cohen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-07
Newtonian Revolution In Science And Its Intellectual Significance written by I. Bernard Cohen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07 with categories.
Isaac Newton was born in 1642, the same year of the death of Galileo and 25 years after the death of Shakespeare. He died in 1727, an old man in his eighties, 50 years before the Declaration of Independence. Who was he? What was the nature of the revolution that he produced in science? In what sense was the revolution so profound that a century later it figured prominently in political thought? This essay provides answers to these questions and shows how Newton was the author of not only one, but at least two -- and maybe even three or four -- great revolutions. One was in mathematics and the others were in physical sciences. All of these achievements were the fruit of only a very small part of his early creative life. Illustrations.
Newton And The Scientific Revolution
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Author : Richard S. Westfall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Newton And The Scientific Revolution written by Richard S. Westfall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Science categories.
Action And Reaction
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Author : Paul Harold Theerman
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1993
Action And Reaction written by Paul Harold Theerman and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Collections categories.
The volume opens with an essay by Richard S. Westfall that justifies claims that Newton was the "culmination of the scientific revolution." The I. Bernard Cohen essay that follows illustrates the difference between "mathematical principles" and "natural philosophy." Two complementary papers give new insights into the Newtonian foundations of celestial mechanics: William Harper analyzes Newton's argument for universal gravitation from the perspective of a philosopher of science; Michael S. Mahoney discusses the mathematical aspects of Newton's use of force law to determine planetary orbits.
The Newtonian Revolution In Science And Its Intellectual Significance
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Author : I. Bernard Cohen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
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Rethinking The Scientific Revolution
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Author : Margaret J. Osler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-03-13
Rethinking The Scientific Revolution written by Margaret J. Osler 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 2000-03-13 with Science categories.
This collection reconsiders canonical figures and the formation of disciplinary boundaries during the Scientific Revolution.