The discovery of dynamics
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The discovery of dynamics
（Absolute or relative motion? : a study from a Machian point of view of the discovery and the structure of dynamical theories / Julian B. Barbour, v. 1）
Cambridge University Press, 1989
Available at 14 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This richly detailed biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the theologian, and the public figure. Professor Westall treats all aspects of Newton's career, but his account centers on a full description of Newton's achievements in science. Thus the core of the work describes the development of the calculus, the experimentation that altered the direction of the science of optics, and especially the investigations in celestial dynamics that led to the law of universal gravitation.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction to Volumes I and II
- 1. Preliminaries
- 2. Aristotle: first airing of the absolute/relative problem
- 3. Hellenistic astronomy: the foundations are laid
- 4. The Middle Ages: first stirrings of the scientific revolution
- 5. Copernicus: the flimsy arch
- 6. Kepler: the dominion of the sun
- 7. Galileo: the geometrization of motion
- 8. Descartes and the new world
- 9. Huygens: relativity and centrifugal force
- 10. Newton I: the discovery of dynamics
- 11. Newton II: absolute or relative motion?
- 12. Post-Newtonian conceptual clarification of Newtonian dynamics
- Abbreviations for works quoted frequently in the references
- References
- Index.
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