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The Investigation of Difficult Things: Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of D. T. Whiteside
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Investigation of Difficult Things: Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of D. T. Whiteside
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| Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Peter M. Harman
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Edited by Alan E. Shapiro
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:548 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 239,Width 191 |
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| Category/Genre | History of science |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521892667
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| Classifications | Dewey:509 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
10 Tables, unspecified; 19 Halftones, unspecified; 68 Line drawings, unspecified; 10 Tables, unspecified; 19 Halftones, unspecified; 68 Line drawings, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
7 November 2002 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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.
Reviews'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
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