{"product_id":"the-investigation-of-difficult-things-essays-on-newton-and-the-history-of-the-exact-sciences-in-honour-of-d-t-whiteside-paperback-9780521892667","title":"The Investigation of Difficult Things; Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of D. T. Whiteside (Paperback) 9780521892667","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Investigation of Difficult Things\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of D. T. Whiteside\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA collection of scholarly essays on Newton and the history of the exact sciences.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter M. Harman (Edited by), Alan E. Shapiro (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521892667, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 7 November 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e548 pages, 87 b\/w illus.  10 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.9 x 19.1 x 3.1 cm, 0.93 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… presents methodologically sophisticated papers whose relevance for the general history of science no historian will doubt.' British Journal for the History of Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Mathematics and Astronomy to Newton: 1. Lunar velocity in the Ptolemaic tradition Bernard R. Goldstein\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Sciametria from Kepler's Hipparchus N. M. Swerdlow\u003cbr\u003e 3. Descartes, Pappus' problem, and the Cartesian parabola Henk Bos\u003cbr\u003e 4. Honoré Fabry E. A. Fellman\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Newton's Manuscripts: 5. Sotheby's Keyens and Yahuda P. E. Spargo: 6. De Scriptoribus chemicis Karin Figala et al\u003cbr\u003e 7. Beyond the dating game Alan Shapiro\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Newton's Principia: 8. The critical role of curvature in Newton's developing dynamics Bruce Brackenridge\u003cbr\u003e 9. Newton and the absolutes A. Rupert Hall\u003cbr\u003e 8. Newton's ontology Zev Bechler\u003cbr\u003e 10. Newton's mathematical  principles of natural philosophy Alan Gabbey\u003cbr\u003e 11. The review of the first edition of Newton's Principia in the Acta Eruditorum Bernard Cohen\u003cbr\u003e 12. Newton, Cotes David Fowler\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Newton and Eighteenth-Century Mathematics and Physics: 14. A study of spirals Ronald Cowing\u003cbr\u003e 15. The fragmentation of the European mathematical community Lenore Feigenbaum\u003cbr\u003e 16. Euler on action at a distance and fundamental equations in continuum mechanics Curtis Wilson\u003cbr\u003e 17. St Peter and the rotation of the Earth Domenico Bertolini Meli\u003cbr\u003e Part V. After Newton: 18. Why Stokes never wrote a treatise on optics Jed Buchwald\u003cbr\u003e 19. Maxwell and Saturn's rings Peter M. Harman\u003cbr\u003e 20. Poincare, topological dynamics Jeremy Gray.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265361269016,"sku":"9780521892667","price":53.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521892667i.jpg?v=1692022116","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-investigation-of-difficult-things-essays-on-newton-and-the-history-of-the-exact-sciences-in-honour-of-d-t-whiteside-paperback-9780521892667","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}