The Investigation of Difficult Things: Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of D. T. WhitesidePeter Michael Harman, Alan E. Shapiro Cambridge University Press, 2002 M11 7 - 531 páginas This book is a collection of twenty original essays on the history of science and mathematics, written in honor of D.T. Whiteside. The topics covered embrace the main themes of Whiteside's scholarly work, emphasizing Newtonian topics including: mathematics and astronomy, Newton's manuscripts, Newton's Principia, Newton and eighteenth-century mathematics and physics, and optics and dynamics after Newton. The focus of these themes gives the volume considerable coherence, and these essays make available important original work on Newton and the history of the exact sciences. |
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Lunar velocity in the Ptolemaic tradition | 3 |
Shadow measurement the Sciametria from Keplers Hipparchus a translation with commentary | 19 |
Descartes Pappus problem and the Cartesian Parabola a conjecture | 71 |
Honore Fabry 16071688 als Mathematiker Eine Reprise | 97 |
Newtons manuscripts | 113 |
Sothebys Keynes and Yahuda the 1936 sale of Newtons manuscripts | 115 |
De Scriptoribus Chemicis sources for the establishment of Isaac Newtons alchemical library | 135 |
Beyond the dating game watermark clusters and the composition of Newtons Opticks | 181 |
The review of the first edition of Newtons Principia in the Acta Eruditorum with notes on the other reviews | 323 |
Newton Cotes and 2 a footnote to Newtons theory of the resistance of fluids | 355 |
Newton and eighteenthcentury mathematics and physics | 369 |
A study of spirals Cotes and Varignon | 371 |
The fragmentation of the European mathematical community | 383 |
Euler on actionatadistance and fundamental equations in continuum mechanics | 399 |
St Peter and the rotation of the earth the problem of fall around 1800 | 421 |
After Newton optics and dynamics | 449 |
Newtons Principia | 229 |
The critical role of curvature in Newtons developing dynamics | 231 |
Newton and the absolutes sources | 261 |
Newtons ontology of the force of inertia | 287 |
Newtons Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy a treatise on mechanics? | 305 |
Why Stokes never wrote a treatise on optics | 451 |
Maxwell and Saturns rings problems of stability and calculability | 477 |
Poincare topological dynamics and the stability of the solar system | 503 |
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