344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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Over the last forty years Professor Hall has been a major contributor to the ’new view’ of Newton now generally accepted. Essentially this has derived from the bringing to light and examination of Newton’s vast, but long neglected legacy of manuscripts, and the first studies in this volume illustrate the wealth of information these provide on the earliest phases of his great discoveries in... Read more
Contents: An autobiographical introduction; Sir Isaac Newton’s note-book, 1661-1665; Further optical experiments of Isaac Newton; Newton on the calculation of central forces; Newton’s chemical experiments; Correcting the Principia; Newton’s ’mechanical principles’; Newton’s theory of matter; Newton and his editors; Beyond the fringe: diffraction as seen by Grimaldi, Fabri, Hooke and Newton; Two unpublished lectures of Robert Hooke; Newton’s first book; Horology and criticism: Robert Hooke; Henry More and the Scientific Revolution; Le problème de la vitesse de la lumière dans l’oeuvre de Newton; Leibniz and the British mathematicians (1673-1676); Newton in France: a new view; Index.
Biography
A. Rupert Hall
