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[1.] Newton's life and society: The lad from Lincolnshire / Frank E. Manuel -- Newton and his society / Christopher Hill -- [2.] Newton's scientific achievements: Newton and the theory of matter / A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall -- Sources and strengths of Newton's early mathematical thought / D.T. Whiteside -- Uneasily fitful reflections on fits of easy transmission / Richard S. Westfall -- Newton's and Leibniz' dynamics / Pierre Costabel (translated by J.M. Briggs, Jr.) -- Newton's achievements in dynamics / John Herivel -- Newton's second law and the concept of force in the Principia / I. Bernard Cohen -- Reactions of late baroque mechanics to success, conjecture, error, and failure in Newton's Principia / C. Truesdell -- Newtonian cosmology / E.L. Schücking -- [3.] Philosophical analysis of Newton's scientific achievements: Newton and the inductive method / Robert Palter -- Newtonian space-time / Howard Stein -- The philosophical significance of Newton's science / Dudley Shapere -- [4.] Newton's influence: The apotheosis of Newton in art / Francis Haskell -- Mechanical philosophy and hypothetical physiology / William Coleman -- The religious consequences of Newton's thought / John Herman Randall, Jr. |
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