Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Longer View of Newton and Halley - Tapa dura

 
9780520065895: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Longer View of Newton and Halley
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ISBN 10: 0520065891 ISBN 13: 9780520065895
Editorial: University of California Press, 1990

Sinopsis

In 1686 Edmond Halley received the manuscript of the Principia from Isaac Newton and several years later predicted the return of the comet that now bears his name using Newton's law of universal gravitation. In 1986 Halley's comet made its fourth appearance since its prediction. These landmark events marking the spectacular achievements of Newton and Halley provide the framework for a reexamination of the circumstances surrounding them. In this volume, eighteen distinguished scholars, including astronomers, physicists, philosophers, and historians of science from several countries, present both new material and fresh interpretations of familiar topics, all considered from humanistic and philosophical vantage points.

For decades scholars have been puzzled by Halley's publication at his own expense of Newton's Principia, and by Newton's subsequent relationship with his younger contemporary. The distinguished contributors to this volume not only grapple with these questions but examine such matters as patronage and institutions as well as some of the scientific advances in astronomy, surveying, mechanics, and mathematics that were made possible by Newton and Halley's professional association.

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Acerca del autor

Norman J. W. Thrower is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, founder of the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, and former director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. He is the editor of The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the 'Paramore', 1698-1701 (1981) and Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577-1580 (University of California Press, 1984) and the coeditor of A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner (University of California Press, 1991).

De la contraportada

"This work constitutes an historical document in its own right. . . . It will be looked to for insight as to how late twentieth-century scholars from around the world viewed a major historical phenomenon."—Gale E. Christianson, Indiana State University

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"This work constitutes an historical document in its own right. . . . It will be looked to for insight as to how late twentieth-century scholars from around the world viewed a major historical phenomenon."Gale E. Christianson, Indiana State University

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Editorial
University of California Press
Año de publicación
1990
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0520065891
ISBN 13 
9780520065895
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
408
Editor
Thrower Norman J. W.
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