Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 10 of 72 << page
of 8
>>
Sort by

Book
Priest of nature : the religious worlds of Isaac Newton
Author:
ISBN: 9780199995356 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press

Isaac Newton
Author:
ISBN: 019530070X 9780195300703 Year: 2005 Volume: *2 Publisher: Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press

Isaac Newton
Author:
ISBN: 019029373X 1280428686 142374635X 0198041187 1602566836 9781423746355 9781280428685 9786610428687 6610428689 019530070X 9780195300703 0197714013 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

A concise and robust biography of the undoubted genius who in the 'Principia' provided the mathematical foundations for modern science. Christianson explores the many & often surprising facets of Newton's complex character, including his feud with Robert Hooke.

Isaac Newton and the scientific revolution
Author:
ISBN: 0199762368 1280605790 9786610605798 1429462159 9781429462150 0195092244 0190282401 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Explores the life and scientific contributions of the famed English mathematician and natural philosopher.

Newton's dream
Author:
ISBN: 1282851284 9786612851285 0773561935 9780773561939 9780773506893 0773506896 9781282851283 6612851287 Year: 1988 Publisher: Kingston, Ont. McGill-Queen's University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This lively collection of lectures presented at the symposium by prominent scholars was collected and edited by Marcia Stayer with the assistance of Boris Castel. The chapters outline the influence of the "Principia" on the work of Newton's contemporaries - such as Adam Smith - and on many areas of present-day science: particle physics, optics, astronomy, and non-mechanical fields such as computer theory. Contributors include A.P. French, Werner Israel, W.H. Newton-Smith, David Raphael, Stephen Smale, Steven Weinberg, Richard S. Westfall, and Denys Wilkinson. This book will be of interest to both general readers and students of science.

Newton : a very short introduction
Author:
ISBN: 1429471190 9786611155230 1281155233 0191538256 9780191538254 9781281155238 9781429471190 6611155236 0199298033 9780199298037 9780191579028 0191579025 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Newton's contributions to an understanding of the heavens and the earth are considered to be unparalleled. This book explains his scientific theories, and uses unpublished writings to paint a picture of an extremely complex man whose beliefs had a huge impact on Europe's political, intellectual, and religious landscape.


Book
The Newton papers
Author:
ISBN: 0199951055 9780199951055 9781306545709 1306545706 9780199951048 0199951047 0199354197 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford New York

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The untold story of Newton's private papers, hidden for centuries, sold for a pittance and then painstakingly reconstructed to reveal a man altogether stranger and more complicated than the genius of legend.


Book
David Hume and the culture of Scottish Newtonianism
Author:
ISBN: 9004327320 9789004327320 9789004327313 9004327312 Year: 2016 Publisher: Boston

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

David Hume has a canonical place in the context of moral philosophy, but his insights are less frequently discussed in relation to natural philosophy. David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism offers a discussion of Hume’s methodological and ideological commitments in matters of knowledge as reflected in his language and outlook. Tamás Demeter argues that several aspects of Hume’s moral philosophy reflect post-Newtonian tendencies in the aftermath of the Opticks , and show affinities with Newton-inspired Scottish physiology and chemistry. Consequently, when Hume describes his project as an 'anatomy of the mind' he uses a metaphor that expresses his commitment to study human cognitive and affective functioning on analogy with active and organic nature, and not with the Principia ’s world of inert matter.


Book
Priest of nature
Author:
ISBN: 0199995362 9780199995363 9780199995356 0199995354 0199995370 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford New York


Book
Isaac Newton im Zwielicht zwischen Mythos und Forschung : Studien zur Epoche der Aufklärung
Author:
ISBN: 3495473394 Year: 1976 Publisher: Freiburg Alber

Listing 1 - 10 of 72 << page
of 8
>>
Sort by