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Introduction to Newton’s “Principia” / I. Bernard Cohen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1971Edition: 2nd printing 1978. Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (380 p.) : 16 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674283602
  • 9780674283619
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 531
LOC classification:
  • QA803
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- ABBREVIATIONS AND SPECIAL SYMBOLS -- AN EDITION OF NEWTON’S ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- PART ONE: AN EDITION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ WITH VARIANT READINGS -- CHAPTER I: INTEREST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER II: THE PLAN OF THE PRESENT EDITION WITH VARIANT READINGS AND THE PROBLEMS OF NEWTONIAN SCHOLARSHIP -- PART TWO: THE WRITING AND FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER III: STEPS TOWARD THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER IV: WRITING THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER V: THE COMPLETION AND PRINTING OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- PART THREE: REVISING THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER VI: THE FIRST CRITICAL EVALUATIONS OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER VII: REVISIONS, CHIEFLY OF THE 1690s, AND PLANS FOR A SECOND EDITION -- CHAPTER VIII: STEPS TOWARD A SECOND EDITION -- PART FOUR: THE SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER IX: THE SECOND EDITION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER X: THE RECEPTION OF THE SECOND EDITION: THE TWO REPRINTS -- CHAPTER XI: THE THIRD EDITION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- SUPPLEMENTS -- SUPPLEMENT I: SOME AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS BY NEWTON ABOUT THE COMPOSITION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- SUPPLEMENT II: HUMPHREY NEWTON AND THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- SUPPLEMENT III: NEWTON’S PROFESSORIAL LECTURES -- SUPPLEMENT IV: NEWTON’S LUCASIAN LECTURES: ‘DE MOTU GORPORUM, LIBER PRIMUS’ -- SUPPLEMENT V: THE RESISTANCE OF SPHERICAL BODIES -- SUPPLEMENT VI: NEWTON’S ‘SYSTEM OF THE WORLD’ -- SUPPLEMENT VII: A CRITIQUE (BY HALLEY?) OF A PRELIMINARY VERSION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- SUPPLEMENT VIII: THE TRACT ‘DE QUADRATURA’ AND THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- SUPPLEMENT IX: NEWTON’S LEMMAS AND PROPOSITIONS ON THE ‘HORARY MOTION OF THE LUNAR APOGEE’ -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- ABBREVIATIONS AND SPECIAL SYMBOLS -- AN EDITION OF NEWTON’S ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- PART ONE: AN EDITION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ WITH VARIANT READINGS -- CHAPTER I: INTEREST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER II: THE PLAN OF THE PRESENT EDITION WITH VARIANT READINGS AND THE PROBLEMS OF NEWTONIAN SCHOLARSHIP -- PART TWO: THE WRITING AND FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER III: STEPS TOWARD THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER IV: WRITING THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER V: THE COMPLETION AND PRINTING OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- PART THREE: REVISING THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER VI: THE FIRST CRITICAL EVALUATIONS OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER VII: REVISIONS, CHIEFLY OF THE 1690s, AND PLANS FOR A SECOND EDITION -- CHAPTER VIII: STEPS TOWARD A SECOND EDITION -- PART FOUR: THE SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER IX: THE SECOND EDITION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- CHAPTER X: THE RECEPTION OF THE SECOND EDITION: THE TWO REPRINTS -- CHAPTER XI: THE THIRD EDITION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- SUPPLEMENTS -- SUPPLEMENT I: SOME AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS BY NEWTON ABOUT THE COMPOSITION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- SUPPLEMENT II: HUMPHREY NEWTON AND THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- SUPPLEMENT III: NEWTON’S PROFESSORIAL LECTURES -- SUPPLEMENT IV: NEWTON’S LUCASIAN LECTURES: ‘DE MOTU GORPORUM, LIBER PRIMUS’ -- SUPPLEMENT V: THE RESISTANCE OF SPHERICAL BODIES -- SUPPLEMENT VI: NEWTON’S ‘SYSTEM OF THE WORLD’ -- SUPPLEMENT VII: A CRITIQUE (BY HALLEY?) OF A PRELIMINARY VERSION OF THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- SUPPLEMENT VIII: THE TRACT ‘DE QUADRATURA’ AND THE ‘PRINCIPIA’ -- SUPPLEMENT IX: NEWTON’S LEMMAS AND PROPOSITIONS ON THE ‘HORARY MOTION OF THE LUNAR APOGEE’ -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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