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_bINT 2012
245 0 _aInterpreting Newton :
_bcritical essays /
_cedited by Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser.
300 _ax, 439 pages
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 396-418) and index.
520 _a"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"--
590 _aFaridi
650 _aPhilosophy of nature;Philosophy of nature;PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern.
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650 _xHistory;History
700 _aJaniak, Andrew,;Schliesser, Eric,
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