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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 - Hardcover
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A collection of scholarly essays on Newton and the history of the exact sciences.
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'The essays are interesting, original and sound. This is the history of science at its best.' Observatory
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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.
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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
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Cambridge University Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0521374359
ISBN 13: 9780521374354
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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
Verlag:
Cambridge University Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0521374359
ISBN 13: 9780521374354
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. First Edition. First Edition (Cambridge, 1992). No markings, annotations, or inscriptions. Internally fine. (Slightest impression of a previously pencilled price to front endpaper only.) Unclipped dust jacket. No tears or conspicuous damage, negligible rubbing only, with some uniform fading to the spine (titling unaffected). Green cloth with bright gilt titling to the spine. The boards remain clean, sharp, and fine. Frontis, xvi, 531pp. A rare and collectible hardback first edition. (Please note: a heavy book. International shipping will likely be expensive.). Artikel-Nr. 4299
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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
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 0521374359
ISBN 13: 9780521374354
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1st edtion. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvi, 531 pages : il ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes index and bibliographical references. Contents: Lunar velocity in the Ptolemaic tradition / Bernard R. Goldstein -- Shadow measurement : the Sciametria from Kepler's Hipparchus : a translation with commentary / N.M. Swerdlow -- Descartes, Pappus' problem, and the Cartesian parabola : a conjecture / Henk J.M. Bos -- Honoré Fabry (1607-1688) als Mathematiker : Eine Reprise / Emil A. Fellmann -- Sotheby's, Keynes and Yahuda : the 1936 sale of Newton's manuscripts / P.E. Spargo -- De scriptoribus chemicis : sources for the establishment of Isaac Newton's (al)chemical library / Karin Figala, John Harrison and Ulrich Petzold -- Beyond the dating game : watermark clusters and the composition of Newton's Opticks / Alan E. Shapiro -- The critical role of curvature in Newton's developing dynamics / J. Bruce Brackenridge -- Newton and the absolutes : sources / A. Rupert Hall. Newton's ontology of the force of inertia / Zev Bechler -- Newton's Mathematical principles of natural philosophy : a treatise on 'mechanics'? / Alan Gabbey -- The review of the first edition of Newton's Principia in the Acta eruditorum, with notes on the other reviews / I. Bernard Cohen -- Newton, Cotes, and [square root square root]2 : a footnote to Newton's theory of the resistance of fluids / D.H. Fowler -- A study of spirals : Cotes and Varignon / Ronald Gowing -- The fragmentation of the European mathematical community / Lenore Feigenbaum -- Euler on action-at-a-distance and fundamental equations in continuum mechanics / Curtis Wilson -- St Peter and the rotation of the earth : the problem of fall around 1800 / Domenico Bertoloni Meli -- Why Stokes never wrote a treatise on optics / Jed Z. Buchwald -- Maxwell and Saturn's rings : problems of stability and calculability / P.M. Harman.Poincaré, topological dynamics, and the stability of the solar system / Jeremy Gray. Subjects: Newton, Isaac 1642-1727; Whiteside, D. T. (Derek Thomas); Newton, Isaac 1642-1727 Addresses, essays, lecturesNewton, Isaac Sir Studies; Science History; Mathematics History; Astronomy History; Physics History; Physics History Addresses, essays, lectures; Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 Critical studies; Science; 17th Century 18th Century Biography Festschriften Mathematics NEWTON, Isaac WHITESIDE, Derek Thomas. 1 Kg. Artikel-Nr. 394249
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