Author: Mordechai Feingold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Isaac Newton is a legendary figure whose mythical dimension threatens to overshadow the actual man.

Author: Alex Woolf
Publisher: Eureka Moment!
ISBN: 9781912904051
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This narrative non-fiction series tells the stories of great moments in science as if through the eyes of the scientists and inventors themselves. The stories are told like an adventure, with all the dramas, missteps and struggles along the way, ultimately leading to the 'Eureka' moment of triumph. The books use all the tropes of fiction - dialogue, action, suspense - to tell true-life tales of human discovery and achievement. Readers will discover what happened during these milestones of science - but crucially, they will also be able to imagine what it might have felt like to be at the cutting edge of progress.The narratives are interspersed with short comic strips dramatising significant episodes and boxes to explain scientific concepts, as well as historical information to set the story in a wider context. The end matter contains a timeline, a glossary and an index.In Isaac Newton and Gravity we follow the eccentric scientist as he develops his theory of gravity which will fundamentally alter the way that humans think about the universe and how it works.

Author: Jed Z. Buchwald
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691154783
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Reveals the manner in which Newton strove for nearly half a century to rectify universal history by reading ancient texts through the lens of astronomy, and to create a tight theoretical system for interpreting the evolution of civilization on the basis of population dynamics

Author: J.B. Shank
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226749479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton’s science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Terms like “Newtonianism” are routinely taken as synonyms for “Enlightenment” and “modern” thought, yet the particular conjunction of these terms has a history full of accidents and contingencies. Modern physics, for example, was not the determined result of the rational unfolding of Newton’s scientific work in the eighteenth century, nor was the Enlightenment the natural and inevitable consequence of Newton’s eighteenth-century reception. Each of these outcomes, in fact, was a contingent event produced by the particular historical developments of the early eighteenth century. A comprehensive study of public culture, The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment digsbelow the surface of the commonplace narratives that link Newton with Enlightenment thought to examine the actual historical changes that brought them together in eighteenth-century time and space. Drawing on the full range of early modern scientific sources, from studied scientific treatises and academic papers to book reviews, commentaries, and private correspondence, J. B. Shank challenges the widely accepted claim that Isaac Newton’s solitary genius is the reason for his iconic status as the father of modern physics and the philosophemovement.

Author: J.B. Shank
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022650932X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457

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We have grown accustomed to the idea that scientific theories are embedded in their place and time. But in the case of the development of mathematical physics in eighteenth-century France, the relationship was extremely close. In Before Voltaire, J.B. Shank shows that although the publication of Isaac Newton’s Principia in 1687 exerted strong influence, the development of calculus-based physics is better understood as an outcome that grew from French culture in general. Before Voltaire explores how Newton’s ideas made their way not just through the realm of French science, but into the larger world of society and culture of which Principia was an intertwined part. Shank also details a history of the beginnings of calculus-based mathematical physics that integrates it into the larger intellectual currents in France at the time, including the Battle of the Ancients and the Moderns, the emergence of wider audiences for science, and the role of the newly reorganized Royal Academy of Sciences. The resulting book offers an unprecedented cultural history of one the most important and influential elements of Enlightenment science.

Author: Deepak Vidyarthi
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1946983446
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Ever wondered how the great laws of Physics were discovered? Well, not all of them originated inside a four-walled lab. Some of the discoveries had more to them - a fight, a war or an epic tale of adventure. Yes! Newton, a genius scientist, must travel in time to discover the most important laws of Physics, and while doing so, he must also learn how to fight an army of villains hell-bent on the destruction of the universe, befriend some other legendary scientists, encounter strange life forms, which he considered as a figment of his imagination and meet God-totally changing his take on life and spirituality. This is an untold story of how a mere human transformed into the legend that he was. Find out how Newton unravels not only the most famous laws of physics but also some thought-provoking truths of life, the mysticism of death and paradoxes of humanity.

Author: Colin Pask
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1616147466
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg has written that "all that has happened since 1687 is a gloss on the Principia." Now you too can appreciate the significance of this stellar work, regarded by many as the greatest scientific contribution of all time. Despite its dazzling reputation, Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, or simply the Principia, remains a mystery for many people. Few of even the most intellectually curious readers, including professional scientists and mathematicians, have actually looked in the Principia or appreciate its contents. Mathematician Pask seeks to remedy this deficit in this accessible guided tour through Newton's masterpiece. Using the final edition of the Principia, Pask clearly demonstrates how it sets out Newton's (and now our) approach to science; how the framework of classical mechanics is established; how terrestrial phenomena like the tides and projectile motion are explained; and how we can understand the dynamics of the solar system and the paths of comets. He also includes scene-setting chapters about Newton himself and scientific developments in his time, as well as chapters about the reception and influence of the Principia up to the present day.

Author: Elizabethanne A. Boran
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004336656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe investigates how Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia was read, interpreted and remodelled for a variety of readerships in eighteenth-century Europe. The editors, Mordechai Feingold and Elizabethanne Boran, have brought together papers which explore how, when, where and why the Principia was appropriated by readers in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, England and Ireland. Particular focus is laid on the methods of transmission of Newtonian ideas via university textbooks and popular works written for educated laymen and women. At the same time, challenges to the Newtonian consensus are explored by writers such as Marius Stan and Catherine Abou-Nemeh who examine Cartesian and Leibnizian responses to the Principia. Eighteenth-century attempts to remodel Newton as a heretic are explored by Feingold, while William R. Newman draws attention to vital new sources highlighting the importance of alchemy to Newton. Contributors are: Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Claudia Addabbo, Elizabethanne Boran, Steffen Ducheyne, Moredechai Feingold, Sarah Hutton, Juan Navarro-Loidi, William R. Newman, Luc Peterschmitt, Anna Marie Roos, Marius Stan, and Gerhard Wiesenfeldt.

Author: Mordechai Feingold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physicists
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Guide for the exhibition held at the New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall, from October 8, 2004 to February 5, 2005, featuring an in-depth look at Isaac Newton, his world and his enduring legacy. Investigates the impact of his theories and discoveries on the development of science as well as modern culture and thought.

Author: Sir Isaac Newton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321723
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 714

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1934.