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Interpreting Newton - Critical Essays (Paperback)
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Interpreting Newton - Critical Essays (Paperback)
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This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading
scholars presents research on Isaac Newton and his main
philosophical interlocutors and critics. The essays analyze
Newton's relation to his contemporaries, especially Barrow,
Descartes, Leibniz and Locke and discuss the ways in which a broad
range of figures, including Hume, Maclaurin, Maupertuis and Kant,
reacted to his thought. The wide range of topics discussed includes
the laws of nature, the notion of force, the relation of
mathematics to nature, Newton's argument for universal gravitation,
his attitude toward philosophical empiricism, his use of
'fluxions', his approach toward measurement problems and his
concept of absolute motion, together with new interpretations of
Newton's matter theory. The volume concludes with an extended essay
that analyzes the changes in physics wrought by Newton's Principia.
A substantial introduction and bibliography provide essential
reference guides.
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