The investigation of difficult things : essays on Newton and the history of the exact sciences in honour of D.T. Whiteside

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The investigation of difficult things : essays on Newton and the history of the exact sciences in honour of D.T. Whiteside

edited by P. M. Harman and Alan E. Shapiro

Cambridge University Press, 2002

1st paperback ed

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Festschrift for D.T. Whiteside

Originally published: 1992

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内容説明

A collection of twenty original essays on the history of science and mathematics. The topics covered embrace the main themes of Whiteside's scholarly work, emphasising Newtonian topics: mathematics and astronomy to Newton; Newton's manuscripts; Newton's Principia; Newton and eighteenth-century mathematics and physics; after Newton: optics and dynamics. The focus of these themes gives the volume considerable coherence. This volume of essays makes available important original work on Newton and the history of the exact sciences. This volume has been published in honour of D. T. Whiteside, famous for his edition of The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton.

目次

  • Part I. Mathematics and Astronomy to Newton: 1. Lunar velocity in the Ptolemaic tradition Bernard R. Goldstein
  • 2. The Sciametria from Kepler's Hipparchus N. M. Swerdlow
  • 3. Descartes, Pappus' problem, and the Cartesian parabola Henk Bos
  • 4. Honore Fabry E. A. Fellman
  • Part II. Newton's Manuscripts: 5. Sotheby's Keyens and Yahuda P. E. Spargo: 6. De Scriptoribus chemicis Karin Figala et al
  • 7. Beyond the dating game Alan Shapiro
  • Part III. Newton's Principia: 8. The critical role of curvature in Newton's developing dynamics Bruce Brackenridge
  • 9. Newton and the absolutes A. Rupert Hall
  • 8. Newton's ontology Zev Bechler
  • 10. Newton's mathematical principles of natural philosophy Alan Gabbey
  • 11. The review of the first edition of Newton's Principia in the Acta Eruditorum Bernard Cohen
  • 12. Newton, Cotes David Fowler
  • Part IV. Newton and Eighteenth-Century Mathematics and Physics: 14. A study of spirals Ronald Cowing
  • 15. The fragmentation of the European mathematical community Lenore Feigenbaum
  • 16. Euler on action at a distance and fundamental equations in continuum mechanics Curtis Wilson
  • 17. St Peter and the rotation of the Earth Domenico Bertolini Meli
  • Part V. After Newton: 18. Why Stokes never wrote a treatise on optics Jed Buchwald
  • 19. Maxwell and Saturn's rings Peter M. Harman
  • 20. Poincare, topological dynamics Jeremy Gray.

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