A First Book Of Natural Philosophy
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Author | : Edward Grant |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2007-01-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521869315 |
This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.
Author | : John F. W. Herschel |
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Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Niccolò Guicciardini |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2018-02-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1780239483 |
Isaac Newton is one of the greatest scientists in history, yet the spectrum of his interests was much broader than that of most contemporary scientists. In fact, Newton would have defined himself not as a scientist, but as a natural philosopher. He was deeply involved in alchemical, religious, and biblical studies, and in the later part of his life he played a prominent role in British politics, economics, and the promotion of scientific research. Newton’s pivotal work Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which sets out his laws of universal gravitation and motion, is regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science. Niccolò Guicciardini’s enlightening biography offers an accessible introduction both to Newton’s celebrated research in mathematics, optics, mechanics, and astronomy and to how Newton viewed these scientific fields in relation to his quest for the deepest secrets of the universe, matter theory and religion. Guicciardini sets Newton the natural philosopher in the troubled context of the religious and political debates ongoing during Newton’s life, a life spanning the English Civil Wars, the Restoration, the Glorious Revolution, and the Hanoverian succession. Incorporating the latest Newtonian scholarship, this fast-paced biography broadens our perception of both this iconic figure and the great scientific revolution of the early modern period.
Author | : Samuel Newth |
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Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1867 |
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Author | : Samuel Newth |
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Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1867 |
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Author | : Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich |
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Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Physics |
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Author | : F. W. J. Schelling |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 079148551X |
Appearing here in English for the first time, this is F. W. J. Schelling's vital document of the attempts of German Idealism and Romanticism to recover a deeper relationship between humanity and nature and to overcome the separation between mind and matter induced by the modern reductivist program. Written in 1799 and building upon his earlier work, First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature provides the most inclusive exposition of Schelling's philosophy of the natural world. He presents a startlingly contemporary model of an expanding and contracting universe; a unified theory of electricity, gravity magnetism, and chemical forces; and, perhaps most importantly, a conception of nature as a living and organic whole.
Author | : Agnes Arber |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1108045057 |
First published in 1950, this monograph on the morphology of flowering plants explores the relationship between philosophy and botany.
Author | : Jed Z. Buchwald |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780262524254 |
Shedding new light on the intellectual context of Newton's scientific thought, this book explores the development of his mathematical philosophy, rational mechanics, and celestial dynamics. An appendix includes the last paper written by Newton biographer Richard S. Westfall.
Author | : Steffen Ducheyne |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2011-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9400721269 |
In this monograph, Steffen Ducheyne provides a historically detailed and systematically rich explication of Newton’s methodology. Throughout the pages of this book, it will be shown that Newton developed a complex natural-philosophical methodology which encompasses procedures to minimize inductive risk during the process of theory formation and which, thereby, surpasses a standard hypothetico-deductive methodological setting. Accordingly, it will be highlighted that the so-called ‘Newtonian Revolution’ was not restricted to the empirical and theoretical dimensions of science, but applied equally to the methodological dimension of science. Furthermore, it will be documented that Newton’s methodology was far from static and that it developed alongside with his scientific work. Attention will be paid not only to the successes of Newton’s innovative methodology, but equally to its tensions and limitations. Based on a thorough study of Newton’s extant manuscripts, this monograph will address and contextualize, inter alia, Newton’s causal realism, his views on action at a distance and space and time, the status of efficient causation in the /Principia/, the different phases of his methodology, his treatment of force and the constituents of the physico-mathematical models in the context of Book I of the /Principia/, the analytic part of the argument for universal gravitation, the meaning and significance of his regulae philosophandi, the methodological differences between his mechanical and optical work, and, finally, the interplay between Newton’s theology and his natural philosophy.