The Cambridge Companion to Newton

The Cambridge Companion to Newton
Author: I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2002-04-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521656962

Newton's philosophical analysis of space and time /Robert Disalle --Newton's concepts of force and mass, with notes on the Laws of Motion /I. Bernard Cohen --Curvature in Newton's dynamics /J. Bruce Brackenridge and Michael Nauenberg --Methodology of the Principia /George E. Smith --Newton's argument for universal gravitation /William Harper --Newton and celestial mechanics /Curtis Wilson --Newton's optics and atomism /Alan E. Shapiro --Newton's metaphysics /Howard Stein --Analysis and synthesis in Newton's mathematical work /Niccolò Guicciardini --Newton, active powers, and the mechanical philosophy /Alan Gabbey --Background to Newton's chymistry /William Newman --Newton's alchemy /Karin Figala --Newton on prophecy and the Apocalypse /Maurizio Mamiani --Newton and eighteenth-century Christianity /Scott Mandelbrote --Newton versus Leibniz : from geomentry to metaphysics /A. Rupert Hall --Newton and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence /Domenico Bertoloni Meli.

The Cambridge Companion to Newton

The Cambridge Companion to Newton
Author: Rob Iliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316546098

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and physics. While most famous for his Principia, his work on light and colour, and his discovery of the calculus, Newton devoted much more time to research in chemistry and alchemy, and to studying prophecy, church history and ancient chronology. This new edition of The Cambridge Companion to Newton provides authoritative introductions to these further dimensions of his endeavours as well as to many aspects of his physics. It includes a revised bibliography, a new introduction and six new chapters: three updating previous chapters on Newton's mathematics, his chemistry and alchemy and the reception of his religious views; and three entirely new, on his religion, his ancient chronology and the treatment of continuous and discontinuous forces in his second law of motion.

The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein

The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein
Author: Hans Sluga
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2018
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 110712025X

Updated edition of this important book, charting the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy of the mind, language, logic, and mathematics.

The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz

The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz
Author: Nicholas Jolley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1995
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521367691

The most comprehensive account of the full range of Leibniz's thought.

The Cambridge Companion to Galileo

The Cambridge Companion to Galileo
Author: Peter Machamer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1998-08-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521588416

Not only a hero of the scientific revolution, but after his conflict with the church, a hero of science, Galileo is today rivalled in the popular imagination only by Newton and Einstein. But what did Galileo actually do, and what are the sources of the popular image we have of him? This 1998 collection of specially-commissioned essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo's work. A particular feature of the volume is the treatment of Galileo's relationship with the church. It will be of interest to philosophers, historians of science, cultural historians and those in religious studies.

The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin

The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin
Author: Donald K. McKim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2004-06-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1107494680

John Calvin (1509–64) stands with Martin Luther (1483–1546) as the premier theologian of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. Calvin's thought spread throughout Europe to the New World and later throughout the whole world. His insights and influence continue to endure today, presenting a model of theological scholarship grounded in Scripture as well as providing nurture for Christian believers within churches across the globe. Dr Donald K. McKim gathers together an international array of major Calvin scholars to consider phases of Calvin's theological thought and influence. Historians and theologians meet to present a full picture of Calvin's contexts, the major themes in Calvin's writings, and the ways in which his thought spread and has increasing importance. Chapters serve as guides to their topics and provide further readings for additional study. This is an accessible introduction to this significant Protestant reformer and will appeal to the specialist and non-specialist alike.

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
Author: George Hutchinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2007-06-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521673686

This 2007 Companion is a comprehensive guide to the key authors and works of the African American literary movement.

The Cambridge Companion to Darwin

The Cambridge Companion to Darwin
Author: Michael Jonathan Sessions Hodge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2009-03-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521884756

This volume provides the reader with clear, lively and balanced introductions to the most recent scholarship on Darwin and his intellectual legacies.

The Cambridge Companion to Conducting

The Cambridge Companion to Conducting
Author: José Antonio Bowen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2003-11-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107494788

In this wide-ranging inside view of the history and practice of conducting, analysis and advice comes directly from working conductors, including Sir Charles Mackerras on opera, Bramwell Tovey on being an Artistic Director, Martyn Brabbins on modern music, Leon Botstein on programming and Vance George on choral conducting, and from those who work closely with conductors: a leading violinist describes working as a soloist with Stokowski, Ormandy and Barbirolli, while Solti and Abbado's studio producer explains orchestral recording, and one of the world's most powerful managers tells all. The book includes advice on how to conduct different types of groups (choral, opera, symphony, early music) and provides a substantial history of conducting as a study of national traditions. It is an unusually honest book about a secretive industry and managers, artistic directors, soloists, players and conductors openly discuss their different perspectives for the first time.

The Cambridge Companion to Descartes

The Cambridge Companion to Descartes
Author: John Cottingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1992-09-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139824910

Descartes occupies a position of pivotal importance as one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy; he is, perhaps the most widely studied of all philosophers. In this authoritative collection an international team of leading scholars in Cartesian studies present the full range of Descartes' extraordinary philosophical achievement. His life and the development of his thought, as well as the intellectual background to and reception of his work, are treated at length. At the core of the volume are a group of chapters on his metaphysics: the celebrated 'Cogito' argument, the proofs of God's existence, the 'Cartesian circle' and the dualistic theory of the mind and its relation to his theological and scientific views. Other chapters cover the philosophical implications of his work in algebra, his place in the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, the structure of his physics, and his work on physiology and psychology.