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The Investigation of Difficult Things

The Investigation of Difficult Things

Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of D. T. Whiteside

by Peter M. Harman and Alan E. Shapiro
Paperback
Publication Date: 07/11/2002

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This book is a collection of twenty original essays on the history of science and mathematics, written in honor of D.T. Whiteside. The topics covered embrace the main themes of Whiteside's scholarly work, emphasizing Newtonian topics including: mathematics and astronomy, Newton's manuscripts, Newton's Principia, Newton and eighteenth-century mathematics and physics, and optics and dynamics after Newton. The focus of these themes gives the volume considerable coherence, and these essays make available important original work on Newton and the history of the exact sciences.
ISBN:
9780521892667
9780521892667
Category:
Astronomy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
07-11-2002
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
239x191x31mm
Weight:
0.93kg

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