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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Large 8vo. 531 pp. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Academic ex-library. Slight shelfwear to boards, faint impressions of pencil markings to several pages and small number stamp to first leaf. Shelfwear to jacket, slight sunning to spine and faint sticker impressions to foot of spine. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. First Edition (Cambridge, 1992). No markings, annotations, or inscriptions. Internally fine. (Slightest impression of a previously pencilled price to front endpaper only.) Unclipped dust jacket. No tears or conspicuous damage, negligible rubbing only, with some uniform fading to the spine (titling unaffected). Green cloth with bright gilt titling to the spine. The boards remain clean, sharp, and fine. Frontis, xvi, 531pp. A rare and collectible hardback first edition. (Please note: a heavy book. International shipping will likely be expensive.).…

Paperback. Condition: New. 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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Condition: New. A collection of scholarly essays on Newton and the history of the exact sciences. Editor(s): Harman, P. M.; Shapiro, Alan E. Num Pages: 548 pages, 87 b/w illus. 10 tables. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 191 x 80. Weight in Grams: 948. . 2002. Revised ed. paperback. . . . . …

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Condition: New. A collection of scholarly essays on Newton and the history of the exact sciences. Editor(s): Harman, P. M.; Shapiro, Alan E. Num Pages: 548 pages, 87 b/w illus. 10 tables. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 191 x 80. Weight in Grams: 948. . 2002. Revised ed. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

1st edtion. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvi, 531 pages : il ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes index and bibliographical references. Contents: Lunar velocity in the Ptolemaic tradition / Bernard R. Goldstein -- Shadow measurement : the Sciametria from Kepler's Hipparchus : a translation with commentary / N.M. Swerdlow -- Descartes, Pappus' problem, and the Cartesian parabola : a conjecture / Henk J.M. Bos -- Honoré Fabry (1607-1688) als Mathematiker : Eine Reprise / Emil A. Fellmann -- Sotheby's, Keynes and Yahuda : the 1936 sale of Newton's manuscripts / P.E. Spargo -- De scriptoribus chemicis : sources for the establishment of Isaac Newton's (al)chemical library / Karin Figala, John Harrison and Ulrich Petzold -- Beyond the dating game : watermark clusters and the composition of Newton's Opticks / Alan E. Shapiro -- The critical role of curvature in Newton's developing dynamics / J. Bruce Brackenridge -- Newton and the absolutes : sources / A. Rupert Hall. Newton's ontology of the force of inertia / Zev Bechler -- Newton's Mathematical principles of natural philosophy : a treatise on 'mechanics'? / Alan Gabbey -- The review of the first edition of Newton's Principia in the Acta eruditorum, with notes on the other reviews / I. Bernard Cohen -- Newton, Cotes, and [square root square root]2 : a footnote to Newton's theory of the resistance of fluids / D.H. Fowler -- A study of spirals : Cotes and Varignon / Ronald Gowing -- The fragmentation of the European mathematical community / Lenore Feigenbaum -- Euler on action-at-a-distance and fundamental equations in continuum mechanics / Curtis Wilson -- St Peter and the rotation of the earth : the problem of fall around 1800 / Domenico Bertoloni Meli -- Why Stokes never wrote a treatise on optics / Jed Z. Buchwald -- Maxwell and Saturn's rings : problems of stability and calculability / P.M. Harman.Poincaré, topological dynamics, and the stability of the solar system / Jeremy Gray. Subjects: Newton, Isaac 1642-1727; Whiteside, D. T. (Derek Thomas); Newton, Isaac 1642-1727 Addresses, essays, lecturesNewton, Isaac Sir Studies; Science History; Mathematics History; Astronomy History; Physics History; Physics History Addresses, essays, lectures; Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 Critical studies; Science; 17th Century 18th Century Biography Festschriften Mathematics NEWTON, Isaac WHITESIDE, Derek Thomas. 1 Kg. …

1st edtion. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvi, 531 pages : il ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes index and bibliographical references. Contents: Lunar velocity in the Ptolemaic tradition / Bernard R. Goldstein -- Shadow measurement : the Sciametria from Kepler's Hipparchus : a translation with commentary / N.M. Swerdlow -- Descartes, Pappus' problem, and the Cartesian parabola : a conjecture / Henk J.M. Bos -- Honoré Fabry (1607-1688) als Mathematiker : Eine Reprise / Emil A. Fellmann -- Sotheby's, Keynes and Yahuda : the 1936 sale of Newton's manuscripts / P.E. Spargo -- De scriptoribus chemicis : sources for the establishment of Isaac Newton's (al)chemical library / Karin Figala, John Harrison and Ulrich Petzold -- Beyond the dating game : watermark clusters and the composition of Newton's Opticks / Alan E. Shapiro -- The critical role of curvature in Newton's developing dynamics / J. Bruce Brackenridge -- Newton and the absolutes : sources / A. Rupert Hall. Newton's ontology of the force of inertia / Zev Bechler -- Newton's Mathematical principles of natural philosophy : a treatise on 'mechanics'? / Alan Gabbey -- The review of the first edition of Newton's Principia in the Acta eruditorum, with notes on the other reviews / I. Bernard Cohen -- Newton, Cotes, and [square root square root]2 : a footnote to Newton's theory of the resistance of fluids / D.H. Fowler -- A study of spirals : Cotes and Varignon / Ronald Gowing -- The fragmentation of the European mathematical community / Lenore Feigenbaum -- Euler on action-at-a-distance and fundamental equations in continuum mechanics / Curtis Wilson -- St Peter and the rotation of the earth : the problem of fall around 1800 / Domenico Bertoloni Meli -- Why Stokes never wrote a treatise on optics / Jed Z. Buchwald -- Maxwell and Saturn's rings : problems of stability and calculability / P.M. Harman.Poincaré, topological dynamics, and the stability of the solar system / Jeremy Gray. Subjects: Newton, Isaac 1642-1727; Whiteside, D. T. (Derek Thomas); Newton, Isaac 1642-1727 Addresses, essays, lecturesNewton, Isaac Sir Studies; Science History; Mathematics History; Astronomy History; Physics History; Physics History Addresses, essays, lectures; Newton, Sir Isaac, 1642-1727 Critical studies; Science; 17th Century 18th Century Biography Festschriften Mathematics NEWTON, Isaac WHITESIDE, Derek Thomas. 1 Kg. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used, like new. Book and jacket are like new. Oversize dark green hardcover in medium green jacket, Cambridge Univ Press, 1992. No marks or writing. OVERSIZE. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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. 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. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. 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.InhaltsverzeichnisPart I. Mathematics and Astronomy . …