Newton’s Scientific and Philosophical Legacy
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1988, 1988
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1988 |
| Series: | International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Preamble
- Newton, the Man — Again
- I: Newton’s Science
- Newton’s Third Law and Universal Gravity
- Newton’s Alchemy and his ‘Active Principle’ of Gravitation
- Newton’s Biblical Theology and his Theological Physics
- Newton’s ‘Opticks’ and the Incomplete Revolution
- Newton’s Pendulum Experiment and specific Characteristics of his Scientific Method in Physics
- II: Newton’s Scientific Heritage
- The Surprises of Newtonian Determinism
- Newton’s Conception of Time in Modern Physics and Philosophy
- Gravitation and Nineteenth-Century Physical Worldviews
- Electricity in Eighteenth-Century Holland: a Newtonian Legacy
- Reconcilation of the Newtonian Framework with Thermodynamics by the Reproducibility of a Collective Physical Quantity
- Newtonian Gravitational Theory and General Relativity in the Light of the Correspondence between their Mathematical Models
- Chemical Affinity in the 19th Century and Newtonianism
- III: Newton’s Methodological Heritage
- Newton, Lavoisier and Modern Science
- Inertia, the Innate Force of Matter: a Legacy from Newton to Modern Physics
- A Charactarization of the Newtonian Paradigm
- Newton’s Mathematization of Physics in Retrospect
- Probability, Planets, and Newton’s Methodology
- Isaac Newton’s Legacy: an Insight into Resilient Patterns of Thought
- Newton’s Construction of the Law of Gravitation
- IV: Newton’s Philosophical Heritage
- Partnership in Glory: Newton and Locke through the Enlightenment and beyond
- What Survives from the Classical Concept of Absolute Time
- Newton’s Theory of Matter
- Ethics, Politics and Sociology as Newtonian Sciences
- Aristotle Wittgenstein, alias Isaac Newton between Fact and Substance
- A Word About the Authors