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 |
This volume collects together Newton's principal philosophical writings for the first time.
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 |
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
Title | Interpreting Newton PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Janiak |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 451 |
Release | 2012-01-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0521766184 |
Essays by leading scholars on Isaac Newton and his philosophical interlocutors and critics, discussing a wide range of topics.
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Title | Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Isaac Newton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
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 |
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
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 |
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.
The Cambridge Companion to Newton
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Newton PDF eBook |
Author | I. Bernard Cohen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 518 |
Release | 2002-04-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521656962 |
Newton's philosophical analysis of space and time /Robert Disalle --Newton's concepts of force and mass, with notes on the Laws of Motion /I. Bernard Cohen --Curvature in Newton's dynamics /J. Bruce Brackenridge and Michael Nauenberg --Methodology of the Principia /George E. Smith --Newton's argument for universal gravitation /William Harper --Newton and celestial mechanics /Curtis Wilson --Newton's optics and atomism /Alan E. Shapiro --Newton's metaphysics /Howard Stein --Analysis and synthesis in Newton's mathematical work /Niccolò Guicciardini --Newton, active powers, and the mechanical philosophy /Alan Gabbey --Background to Newton's chymistry /William Newman --Newton's alchemy /Karin Figala --Newton on prophecy and the Apocalypse /Maurizio Mamiani --Newton and eighteenth-century Christianity /Scott Mandelbrote --Newton versus Leibniz : from geomentry to metaphysics /A. Rupert Hall --Newton and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence /Domenico Bertoloni Meli.