Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings

Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings
Title Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings PDF eBook
Author Isaac Newton
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 194
Release 2004-11-18
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780521538480

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This volume collects together Newton's principal philosophical writings for the first time.

Newton's Philosophy of Nature

Newton's Philosophy of Nature
Title Newton's Philosophy of Nature PDF eBook
Author Sir Isaac Newton
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 226
Release 2012-08-21
Genre Science
ISBN 0486170276

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A wide, accessible representation of the interests, problems, and philosophic issues that preoccupied the great 17th-century scientist, this collection is grouped according to methods, principles, and theological considerations. 1953 edition.

Interpreting Newton

Interpreting Newton
Title Interpreting Newton PDF eBook
Author Andrew Janiak
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 451
Release 2012-01-12
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0521766184

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Essays by leading scholars on Isaac Newton and his philosophical interlocutors and critics, discussing a wide range of topics.

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Title Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy PDF eBook
Author Isaac Newton
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2003
Genre
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Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method

Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method
Title Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method PDF eBook
Author Niccolo Guicciardini
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 449
Release 2011-08-19
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 0262291657

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An analysis of Newton's mathematical work, from early discoveries to mature reflections, and a discussion of Newton's views on the role and nature of mathematics. Historians of mathematics have devoted considerable attention to Isaac Newton's work on algebra, series, fluxions, quadratures, and geometry. In Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method, Niccolò Guicciardini examines a critical aspect of Newton's work that has not been tightly connected to Newton's actual practice: his philosophy of mathematics. Newton aimed to inject certainty into natural philosophy by deploying mathematical reasoning (titling his main work The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy most probably to highlight a stark contrast to Descartes's Principles of Philosophy). To that end he paid concerted attention to method, particularly in relation to the issue of certainty, participating in contemporary debates on the subject and elaborating his own answers. Guicciardini shows how Newton carefully positioned himself against two giants in the “common” and “new” analysis, Descartes and Leibniz. Although his work was in many ways disconnected from the traditions of Greek geometry, Newton portrayed himself as antiquity's legitimate heir, thereby distancing himself from the moderns. Guicciardini reconstructs Newton's own method by extracting it from his concrete practice and not solely by examining his broader statements about such matters. He examines the full range of Newton's works, from his early treatises on series and fluxions to the late writings, which were produced in direct opposition to Leibniz. The complex interactions between Newton's understanding of method and his mathematical work then reveal themselves through Guicciardini's careful analysis of selected examples. Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method uncovers what mathematics was for Newton, and what being a mathematician meant to him.

Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World

Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World
Title Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World PDF eBook
Author Sir Isaac Newton
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 714
Release 2023-11-15
Genre Science
ISBN 0520321723

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1934.

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton
Title Isaac Newton PDF eBook
Author James Gleick
Publisher Vintage
Pages 290
Release 2007-12-18
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0307426432

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Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them names—mass, gravity, velocity—things our science now takes for granted. Inspired by Aristotle, spurred on by Galileo’s discoveries and the philosophy of Descartes, Newton grasped the intangible and dared to take its measure, a leap of the mind unparalleled in his generation. James Gleick, the author of Chaos and Genius, and one of the most acclaimed science writers of his generation, brings the reader into Newton’s reclusive life and provides startlingly clear explanations of the concepts that changed forever our perception of bodies, rest, and motion—ideas so basic to the twenty-first century, it can truly be said: We are all Newtonians.