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Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, 19
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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.
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