Force and geometry in Newton's Principia

書誌事項

Force and geometry in Newton's Principia

François De Gandt ; translated by Curtis Wilson

Princeton University Press, 1995

タイトル別名

Force et géométrie

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-293) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This text introduces one to the reading of Newton's "Principia" in its own terms. The path of access that De Gandt proposes leads through the study of geometrization of force, resulting in a meditation on the sources and meaning of Newton's magnum opus. In Chapter I, De Gandt presents a translation of and detailed commentary on an earlier and simpler version of what in 1687 became Book I of the "Principia". Chapter II places these dynamics in the context of earlier efforts - the first seeds of celestial dynamics in Kepler, Galileo's theory of accelerated motion, and huygen's quantification of centrifrugal force - and evaluates Newton's debt to these thinkers. Chapter III is a study of the mathematical tools used by Newton and their intellectual antecedents in the works of Galileo, Torricelli, Barrow and other 17th-century mathematicians. The conclusion discusses the new status of force and cause in the science that emerges from Newton's "Principia".

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA26019529
  • ISBN
    • 0691033676
  • LCCN
    94039315
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    fre
  • 出版地
    Princeton, N.J.
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiv, 296 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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