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This Volume Grows Out Of A Symposium Commemorating The Three-hundredth Anniversary Of The Publication Of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Held At The University Of Maryland And The Smithsonian Institution In 1987. Widely Acknowledged To Be The Most Important Scientific Work Ever Published, The 1687 Principia Contains The First Complete Statement Of Principles That Were To Govern Physical Science Into The Nineteenth Century. Presented Here Is A Sampling Of The Best Current Scholarship On The Principia, Its Context, And Its Influence. The Essays Reflect The Depth Of Inquiry And Diversity Of Research That Have Characterized The Last Generation Of Work On Newton. The Volume Opens With An Essay By Richard S. Westfall That Justifies Claims That Newton Was The Culmination Of The Scientific Revolution. The I. Bernard Cohen Essay That Follows Illustrates The Difference Between Mathematical Principles And Natural Philosophy. Two Complementary Papers Give New Insights Into The Newtonian Foundations Of Celestial Mechanics: William Harper Analyzes Newton's Argument For Universal Gravitation From The Perspective Of A Philosopher Of Science; Michael S. Mahoney Disc

Author

Paul Theerman and Adele F. Seeff

Publisher

Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press ; London: Associated University Presses

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874134469

Subjects

Science, History, Physics