Newton, His Friends and His Foes

ISBN-13: 9780860783473 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 344 str.

Hall, A. Rupert

Opis

Over the last forty years Professor Hall has been a major contributor to the a new viewa of Newton now generally accepted. Essentially this has derived from the bringing to light and examination of Newtona s vast, but long neglected legacy of manuscripts, and the first studies in this volume illustrate the wealth of information these provide on the earliest phases of his great discoveries in mathematics and science. In particular, they confirm the intensity and originality of Newtona s investigations before and through the a anni mirabilesa of 1665-66. Further papers then deal with his relations with contemporaries such as Hooke, Leibniz and Huyghens, again making extensive use of unpublished manuscript material, and with the developing influence of his work. Durant les quarante dernieres annees, le professeur Hall a ete la un des plus importants contributeurs A la nouvelle appreciation de la oeuvre de Newton, qui est de nos jours la plus generalement acceptee. Ceci provient essentiellement de la examen du vaste heritage de manuscrits laisses par Newton et tres longtemps neglige; les premieres etudes de ce volume illustrent la richesse da informations contenues dans ceux-ci quant aux toutes premieres phases de ses grandes decouvertes dans le domaine des mathematiques et de le science. Ils confirment en particulier la intensite et la originalite des recherches de Newton avant et pendant les a anni mirabilesa de 1665a 66. Sa ajoutent A ceci plusieurs etudes, oA il est A nouveau fait grand usage de manuscrits inedits, traitant des rapports qua il entretenait avec ses contemporains tels, Hooke, Leibniz et Huyghens, ainsi que de la influence progressive de ses travaux."

Spis treści

Contents: An autobiographical introduction; Sir Isaac Newton’s note-book, 1661-1665; Further optical experiments of Isaac Newton; Newton on the calculation of central forces; Newton’s chemical experiments; Correcting the Principia; Newton’s ’mechanical principles’; Newton’s theory of matter; Newton and his editors; Beyond the fringe: diffraction as seen by Grimaldi, Fabri, Hooke and Newton; Two unpublished lectures of Robert Hooke; Newton’s first book; Horology and criticism: Robert Hooke; Henry More and the Scientific Revolution; Le problème de la vitesse de la lumière dans l’oeuvre de Newton; Leibniz and the British mathematicians (1673-1676); Newton in France: a new view; Index.

O autorze

A. Rupert Hall