Newton and Newtonianism : new studies
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Newton and Newtonianism : new studies
（Archives internationales d'histoire des idées = International archives of the history of ideas, 188）
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2004
- : hbk
Available at 8 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Sir Isaac Newton's pre-eminence in the history of science remains ?xed, yet the picture which we have of the whole man, and of the in?uence of his wide-ranging intellect, has been changing rapidly as scholars have incre- ingly taken cognizance of those aspects of Newton's thought hitherto hidden in his unpublished manuscripts. At the start of the third millennium, we ?nd ourselves poised to launch the greatest revolution yet in Newton studies as an international team of scholars has been assembled to publish all of Newton's widely scattered unpublished papers. The William Andrews Clark Memorial LibraryhasbeenassociatedwiththeworldofNewtonianscholarshipforsome yearsthroughitspurchase,in1961,ofanimportantmanuscript("Paradoxical Questions concerning ye morals & Actions of Athanasius & his followers") and through its long association with Professor Richard H. Popkin (U. C. L. A. ) and Professor James E. Force (University of Kentucky). Through the g- th th erous sponsorship of both the U. C. L. A. Center for 17 - and 18 -Century Studies and the U. C. L. A. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library-which areunderthedirectionofProfessorPeterH.
Reill-ProfessorsForceandP- kinwereabletostageaseriesofClarkLibraryconferencesdevotedtoNewton throughout the 1990s. The papers delivered at these conferences evolved into a series of important edited volumes whose general theme was the centrality of theological and religious ideas to Newton's intellectual formation. In the present volume, this longstanding project continues. Once again thanks to the th generosityofProfessorReillandtheresourcesoftheU. C. L. A.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- J.E. Force, S. Hutton. Introduction
- M.J. Osler. 1. The New Newtonian Scholarship and the Fate of the Scientific Revolution
- M.J. Osler. 2. Plans for Publishing Newton's Religious and Alchemical Manuscripts, 1982-1998
- R.H. Popkin. 3. Digitizing Newton: The Newton Project and an Electronic Edition of Newton's Papers
- R. Iliffe. 4. Was Newton a Voluntarist? P. Harrison. 5. Providence and Newton's Pantokrator: Natural Law, Miracles and Newtonian Science
- J.E. Force. 6. Eighteenth-Century Reactions to Newton's Anti-Trinitarianism
- S. Mandelbrote. 7. Prosecuting Athanasius: Protestant Forensics and the Mirrors of Persecution
- R. Iliffe. 8. Lust, Pride and Ambition: Isaac Newton and the Devil
- S.D. Snobelen. 9. Women, Science and Newtonianism: Emilie Du Chatelet Versus Francesco Algarotti
- S. Hutton. 10. Reflections on Newton's Alchemy in Light of the New Historiography of Alchemy
- L.M. Principe. 11. The Trouble with Newton in the Eighteenth Century
- L. Stewart. Index.
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