The investigation of difficult things: essays on Newton and the history of the exact sciences in honour of D.T. Whiteside
1992, 1st edtion. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 1992. 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. Item #394249
ISBN: 0521374359
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, lectures
Newton, 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.
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