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Interpreting Newton : critical essays /
"This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars presents new research on Isaac Newton and his main philosophical interlocutors and critics. The essays analyze Newton's relation to his contemporaries, especially Barrow, Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke, and discuss the wa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge books online.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser
- Newton's law-constitutive approach to bodies: a response to Descartes / Katherine Brading
- Leibniz, Newton and force / Daniel Garber
- Locke's qualified embrace of Newton's Principia / Mary Domski
- What geometry postulates: Newton and Barrow on the relationship of mathematics to nature / Katherine Dunlop
- Cotes' queries: Newton's empiricism and conceptions of matter / Zvi Biener and Chris Smeenk
- Newton's scientific method and the universal law of gravitation / Ori Belkind
- Newton, Huygens and Euler: empirical support for laws of motion / William Harper
- What did Newton mean by 'Absolute Motion'? / Nick Huggett
- From velocities to fluxions / Marco Panza
- Newton, Locke, and Hume / Graciela de Pierris
- Maupertuis on attraction as an inherent property of matter / Lisa Downing
- The Newtonian refutation of Spinoza: Newton's challenge and the Socratic problem / Eric Schliesser
- Dispositional explanations: Boyle's problem, Newton's solution, Hume's response / Lynn S. Joy
- Newton and Kant on absolute space: from theology to transcendental philosophy / Michael Friedman
- How Newton's Principia changed physics / George E. Smith.