The Investigation of Difficult Things : Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of D. T. Whiteside
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
052189266X
ISBN-13
9780521892667
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 7th, 2002
Print length
548 Pages
Weight
948 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 19.10 x 8.00 cms
Product Classification:
History of science
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The book is a collection of essays on the history of science and mathematics, with especial emphasis on Newtonian themes. The volume has been published in honour of D. T. Whiteside.
A collection of twenty original essays on the history of science and mathematics. The topics covered embrace the main themes of Whiteside's scholarly work, emphasising Newtonian topics: mathematics and astronomy to Newton; Newton's manuscripts; Newton's Principia; Newton and eighteenth-century mathematics and physics; after Newton: optics and dynamics. The focus of these themes gives the volume considerable coherence. This volume of essays makes available important original work on Newton and the history of the exact sciences. This volume has been published in honour of D. T. Whiteside, famous for his edition of The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton.
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