BOOK

Interpreting Newton : critical essays

Janiak, Andrew, editor of compilation, Schliesser, Eric, 1971- editor of compilation

2012

Overview

\"This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars presents new 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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 Philosophy. / Philosophy of nature History 17th century. / Philosophy of nature History 18th century. / PHILOSOPHY - History & Surveys - Modern.
• ISBN: 9780521766180

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
B1299.N34 I68 2012	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE