Author: Jed Z. Buchwald
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262524254
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Shedding new light on the intellectual context of Newton's scientific thought, this book explores the development of his mathematical philosophy, rational mechanics, and celestial dynamics. An appendix includes the last paper written by Newton biographer Richard S. Westfall.
Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy
Author: Jed Z. Buchwald
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262524254
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Shedding new light on the intellectual context of Newton's scientific thought, this book explores the development of his mathematical philosophy, rational mechanics, and celestial dynamics. An appendix includes the last paper written by Newton biographer Richard S. Westfall.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262524254
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Shedding new light on the intellectual context of Newton's scientific thought, this book explores the development of his mathematical philosophy, rational mechanics, and celestial dynamics. An appendix includes the last paper written by Newton biographer Richard S. Westfall.
The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy
Author: Sylvia Berryman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113948026X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
It has long been thought that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously as part of the workings of nature, and that therefore their natural philosophy was both primitive and marginal. In this book Sylvia Berryman challenges that assumption, arguing that the idea that the world works 'like a machine' can be found in ancient Greek thought, predating the early modern philosophy with which it is most closely associated. Her discussion ranges over topics including balancing and equilibrium, lifting water, sphere-making and models of the heavens, and ancient Greek pneumatic theory, with detailed analysis of thinkers such as Aristotle, Archimedes, and Hero of Alexandria. Her book shows scholars of ancient Greek philosophy why it is necessary to pay attention to mechanics, and shows historians of science why the differences between ancient and modern reactions to mechanics are not as great as was generally thought.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113948026X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
It has long been thought that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously as part of the workings of nature, and that therefore their natural philosophy was both primitive and marginal. In this book Sylvia Berryman challenges that assumption, arguing that the idea that the world works 'like a machine' can be found in ancient Greek thought, predating the early modern philosophy with which it is most closely associated. Her discussion ranges over topics including balancing and equilibrium, lifting water, sphere-making and models of the heavens, and ancient Greek pneumatic theory, with detailed analysis of thinkers such as Aristotle, Archimedes, and Hero of Alexandria. Her book shows scholars of ancient Greek philosophy why it is necessary to pay attention to mechanics, and shows historians of science why the differences between ancient and modern reactions to mechanics are not as great as was generally thought.
Institutes of Natural Philosophy, Theoretical and Practical
Author: William Enfield
Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Seeking Nature's Logic
Author: David B. Wilson
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271035250
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Studies the path of natural philosophy (i.e., physics) from Isaac Newton through Scotland into the nineteenth-century background to the modern revolution in physics. Examines how the history of science has been influenced by John Robison and other notable intellectuals of the Scottish Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271035250
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Studies the path of natural philosophy (i.e., physics) from Isaac Newton through Scotland into the nineteenth-century background to the modern revolution in physics. Examines how the history of science has been influenced by John Robison and other notable intellectuals of the Scottish Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.
A Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain; Including a Complete List of All the Greek Writers, by the Late Rev. Charles Burney ... with an Alphabetical Index of Authors, by William Harris ..
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Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Philosophy and the Natural Environment
Author: Robin Attfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521469031
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Leading international environmental philosophers further the debate about the environment and the metaphysical, ethical, social and international implications.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521469031
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Leading international environmental philosophers further the debate about the environment and the metaphysical, ethical, social and international implications.
A Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Author: Charles Burney
Publisher:
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.
Author: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: Systematically Classed. Preceded by an Historical and Bibliographical Account of the Establishment. [Compiled by William Upcott, Richard Thomson and Edward W. Brayley.]
Author: London Institution (London)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
John Locke and Natural Philosophy
Author: Peter R. Anstey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199589771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Peter Anstey presents an innovative study of John Locke's views on the method and content of natural philosophy. He argues that Locke was an advocate of the experimental philosophy: the new approach to natural philosophy championed by the scientists of the Royal Society who were opposed to speculative philosophy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199589771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Peter Anstey presents an innovative study of John Locke's views on the method and content of natural philosophy. He argues that Locke was an advocate of the experimental philosophy: the new approach to natural philosophy championed by the scientists of the Royal Society who were opposed to speculative philosophy.