Roger Cotes - Natural Philosopher

Roger Cotes - Natural Philosopher

Author: Ronald Gowing

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-06-27

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780521526494

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An appreciation of the life's work of one of the most distinguished early Newtonians.


Newton's Philosophy of Nature

Newton's Philosophy of Nature

Author: Sir Isaac Newton

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-08-21

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 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.


Cavendish

Cavendish

Author: Christa Jungnickel

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 844

ISBN-13: 9780838754450

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"The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--BOOK JACKET.


Newton and Empiricism

Newton and Empiricism

Author: Zvi Biener

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-05-16

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0199337101

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This volume of original papers by a leading team of international scholars explores Isaac Newton's relation to a variety of empiricisms and empiricists. It includes studies of Newton's experimental methods in optics and their roots in Bacon and Boyle; Locke's and Hume's responses to Newton on the nature of matter, time, the structure of the sciences, and the limits of human inquiry. In addition it explores the use of Newtonian ideas in 18th-century pedagogy and the life sciences. Finally, it breaks new ground in analyzing the method of evidential reasoning heralded by the Principia, its nature, strength, and development in the subsequent three centuries of gravitational research. The volume will be of interest to historians of science and philosophy and philosophers interested in the nature of empiricism.


Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings

Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings

Author: Isaac Newton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-11-18

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9780521538480

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


Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727

Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727

Author: K. Gevirtz

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1137386762

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This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.


Hume's Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Physical Science

Hume's Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Physical Science

Author: Matias Slavov

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1350087882

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This book contextualizes David Hume's philosophy of physical science, exploring both Hume's background in the history of early modern natural philosophy and its subsequent impact on the scientific tradition. Drawing on Cartesian cosmology and Einstein's special relativity, and taking in topics including experimentalism, causation, laws of nature, metaphysics of forces, mathematics' relation to nature, and the concepts of space and time, this book deepens our understanding of Hume's relation to natural philosophy. It does so in addition by situating Hume's thought within the context of other major philosophers and scientists, including Descartes, Locke, Boyle, Kant, Newton, and Leibniz. Demonstrating above all Hume's understanding of the fluid relationship between philosophy and science, Hume's Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Physical Science will provide new insights for historians and philosophers of science.


Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe

Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe

Author: Elizabethanne A. Boran

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-06-06

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9004336656

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Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe investigates how Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia was read, interpreted and remodelled for a variety of readerships in eighteenth-century Europe. The editors, Mordechai Feingold and Elizabethanne Boran, have brought together papers which explore how, when, where and why the Principia was appropriated by readers in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, England and Ireland. Particular focus is laid on the methods of transmission of Newtonian ideas via university textbooks and popular works written for educated laymen and women. At the same time, challenges to the Newtonian consensus are explored by writers such as Marius Stan and Catherine Abou-Nemeh who examine Cartesian and Leibnizian responses to the Principia. Eighteenth-century attempts to remodel Newton as a heretic are explored by Feingold, while William R. Newman draws attention to vital new sources highlighting the importance of alchemy to Newton. Contributors are: Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Claudia Addabbo, Elizabethanne Boran, Steffen Ducheyne, Moredechai Feingold, Sarah Hutton, Juan Navarro-Loidi, William R. Newman, Luc Peterschmitt, Anna Marie Roos, Marius Stan, and Gerhard Wiesenfeldt.