The Investigation of Difficult Things: Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of D. T. Whiteside - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052189266X ISBN 13: 9780521892667

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

A collection of twenty original essays on the history of science and mathematics. The topics covered embrace the main themes of Whiteside's scholarly work, emphasising Newtonian topics: mathematics and astronomy to Newton; Newton's manuscripts; Newton's Principia; Newton and eighteenth-century mathematics and physics; after Newton: optics and dynamics. The focus of these themes gives the volume considerable coherence. This volume of essays makes available important original work on Newton and the history of the exact sciences. This volume has been published in honour of D. T. Whiteside, famous for his edition of The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton.

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'The essays are interesting, original and sound. This is the history of science at its best.' Observatory

'... presents methodologically sophisticated papers whose relevance for the general history of science no historian will doubt.' British Journal for the History of Science

Book Description

The book is a collection of essays on the history of science and mathematics, with especial emphasis on Newtonian themes. The volume has been published in honour of D. T. Whiteside.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 052189266X
• ISBN 13: 9780521892667
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 548
• Editor: Harman Peter M., Shapiro Alan E.