The Investigation of Difficult Things
The Investigation of Difficult Things

Author: Peter Michael Harman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-11-07

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9780521892667

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A collection of twenty original essays on the history of science and mathematics. The topics covered embrace the main themes of Whiteside's scholarly work, emphasising Newtonian topics: mathematics and astronomy to Newton; Newton's manuscripts; Newton's Principia; Newton and eighteenth-century mathematics and physics; after Newton: optics and dynamics. The focus of these themes gives the volume considerable coherence. This volume of essays makes available important original work on Newton and the history of the exact sciences. This volume has been published in honour of D. T. Whiteside, famous for his edition of The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton.

The Cambridge Companion to Newton
The Cambridge Companion to Newton

Author: Rob Iliffe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-29

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 1316546098

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Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and physics. While most famous for his Principia, his work on light and colour, and his discovery of the calculus, Newton devoted much more time to research in chemistry and alchemy, and to studying prophecy, church history and ancient chronology. This new edition of The Cambridge Companion to Newton provides authoritative introductions to these further dimensions of his endeavours as well as to many aspects of his physics. It includes a revised bibliography, a new introduction and six new chapters: three updating previous chapters on Newton's mathematics, his chemistry and alchemy and the reception of his religious views; and three entirely new, on his religion, his ancient chronology and the treatment of continuous and discontinuous forces in his second law of motion.

A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy
A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy

Author: Steven Nadler

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 675

ISBN-13: 0470998830

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This is a reference for early modern philosophy. Representing the most contemporary research in the history of early modern philosophy, it is organized by thinker rather than theme, and covers every important philosopher and philosophical movement of 16th- and 18th-century Europe.

Every Bitter Thing
Every Bitter Thing

Author: Leighton Gage

Publisher: Soho Press

Published: 2011-10-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1569479984

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The son of the Venezuelan Foreign Minister is found dead in his apartment in Brasília, the victim of a crime of passion, or so it seems. Due to the high-profile nature of the case, Chief Inspector Mario Silva of Brazil’s Federal Police is called in to investigate. As he delves deeper, he discovers that a chain of murders have occurred throughout Brazil, all with the same MO. They seem to be the work of the same killer—but the victims, of diverse ethnicities, cities of residence, economic classes, and walks of life, have nothing in common. What sinister motive connects these killings?