Reading Newton in early modern Europe / / edited by Elizabethanne Boran, Mordechai Feingold.
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...
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| Superior document: | Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, Volume 19 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ;
Volume 19. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Elizabethanne Boran
- Introducing Newton
- The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in Naples / Claudia Addabbo
- Newton and the Spanish Artillerymen / Juan Navarro Loidi
- The Practical Tradition of Dutch Newtonianism / Gerhard Wiesenfeldt
- Science for Ladies? Elizabeth Carter’s Translation of Algarotti and “popular” Newtonianism in the Eighteenth Century / Sarah Hutton
- Irish Newtonian Physicians and Their Arguments: The Case of Bryan Robinson / Anna Marie Roos
- Challenging Newton
- Controversies over Comets: Isaac Newton, Nicolas Hartsoeker, and Early Modern World-making / Catherine Abou-Nemeh
- ’s Gravesande’s and Van Musschenbroek’s Appropriation of Newton’s Methodological Ideas / Steffen Ducheyne
- Newton’s Concepts of Force among the Leibnizians / Marius Stan
- How Did Berkeley Read Newton? / Luc Peterschmitt
- Remodelling Newton
- Newton’s Reputation as an Alchemist and the Tradition of Chymiatria / William R. Newman
- Isaac Newton, Heretic? Some Eighteenth-Century Perceptions / Mordechai Feingold.