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The Annus mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton, 1666-1966.
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The Annus mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton, 1666-1966.

Author: Robert Palter
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press [1970 or 1]
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Annus mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton, 1666-1966.
Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press [1970 or 1]
(OCoLC)631810431
Named Person: Isaac Newton, Sir; Isaac Newton, Sir; Isaac Newton
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Palter
ISBN: 0262160358 9780262160353
OCLC Number: 187776
Notes: Expanded and revised version of papers and discussion comments originally presented at a conference on Newtonian studies, held at the University of Texas at Austin, Nov. 10-12, 1966. Cf. Pref. and dust jacket.
Description: viii, 351 p. illus., facsims., ports. 27 cm.
Contents: [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.
Responsibility: Edited by Robert Palter.

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