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The Cambridge Companion to Newton

Sir Isaac Newton (16421727) was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and the natural sciences. In this volume a team of distinguished contributors examines all the main aspects of Newtons thought, including not only his approach to space, time, and universal gravity in his Principia , his research in optics, and his contributions to mathematics, but also his more clandestine investigations into alchemy, theology, and prophecy, which have sometimes been overshadowed by his mathematical and scientific interests. New readers and non-specialists will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Newton currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Newton.

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The Cambridge Companion to Newton

Edited by

I. Bernard Cohen

Harvard University

George E. Smith

Tufts University

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Cambridge University Press 2002

This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.

First published 2002

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The Cambridge companion to Newton / edited by I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0 521 65177 8 (hardback) ISBN 0 521 65696 6 (paperback)

1. Newton, Isaac, Sir, 16421727. 2. PhysicsEuropeHistory17th century.

3. PhysicsEuropeHistory18th century. 4. ScienceEurope

History17th century. 5. ScienceEuropeHistory18th century.

I. Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914 II. Smith, George E. (George Edwin), 1938

QC16.N7 C35 2002

530.092dc21 2001037836

ISBN 978-0-521-65177-6 hardback

ISBN 978-0-521-65696-2 paperback

Transferred to digital printing 2007

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CONTRIBUTORS

Domenico Bertoloni Meli is a professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. He specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century science and medicine and is the author of Equivalence and Priority: Newton versus Leibniz .

J. Bruce Brackenridge is Alice G. Chapman Professor of Physics Emeritus at Lawrence University. He is the author of The Key to Newtons Dynamics: The Kepler Problem and the Principia , as well as several papers on the role of curvature in Newtons dynamics.

I. Bernard Cohen is Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science Emeritus at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books in the history of science generally and on Newton in particular, including The Newtonian Revolution , and is co-editor of the Variorum Latin edition of Newtons Principia and co-author of the new English translation.

Robert Disalle is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He has published several papers on Newton, Einstein, and Mach, especially on their respective treatments of space, time, and motion.

Karin Figala is University Professor for the History of the Sciences at Deutsches Museum in Munich. She is author of many papers on alchemy and co-editor of the recent Alchemie, Lexicon einer hermetischen Wissenschaft .

Alan Gabbey is Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College. He has published numerous papers on seventeenth-century mechanics and philosophy, including a prominent paper on the principle of inertia.

Niccol Guicciardini teaches history of science at the University of Bologna. He is author of The Development of Newtonian Calculus in Britain, 17001800 and Reading the Principia: The Debate on Newtons Mathematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736 .

Rupert Hall is Professor Emeritus of History of Science and Technology at Imperial College, University of London. His many works in the history of science include Philosophers at War: The Quarrel between Newton and Leibniz, Isaac Newton, Adventurer in Thought , and, as co-editor (with Marie Boas Hall), Unpublished Scientific Papers of Isaac Newton .

William Harper is Professor of Philosophy at Western Ontario University. He has written extensively on Newtons methodology and the relationship between Newtons and Einsteins theories of gravity, as well as on Kant and on causal decision theory.

Maurizio Mamiani is Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of Udine, Italy. Among his books and papers on Newton are I. Newton filosofo della natura, Il prisma di Newton , and Introduzione a Newton .

Scott Mandelbrote is Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is one of the editorial directors of a project to transcribe and edit the alchemical, administrative, and theological manuscripts of Isaac Newton.

Michael Nauenberg is Professor of Physics Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In addition to the many papers from his distinguished career in physics, he has published several articles on the technical development of Newtons physics.

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