The Cambridge companion to Newton / edited by I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith
- 1. Newton's philosophical analysis of space and time / Robert Disalle
- 2. Newton's concepts of force and mass, with notes on the Laws of Motion / I. Bernard Cohen
- 3. Curvature in Newton's dynamics / J. Bruce Brackenridge and Michael Nauenberg
- 4. The methodology of the Principia / George E. Smith
- 5. Newton's argument for universal gravitation / William Harper
- 6. Newton and celestial mechanics / Curtis Wilson
- 7. Newton's optics and atomism / Alan E. Shapiro
- 8. Newton's metaphysics / Howard Stein
- 9. Analysis and synthesis in Newton's mathematical work / Niccolo Guicciardini
- 10. Newton, active powers, and the mechanical philosophy / Alan Gabbey
- 11. The background to Newton's chymistry / William Newman
- 12. Newton's alchemy / Karin Figala
- 13. Newton on prophecy and the Apocalypse / Maurizio Mamiani
- 14. Newton and eighteenth-century Christianity / Scott Mandelbrote
- 15. Newton versus Leibniz: from geometry to metaphysics / A. Rupert Hall
- 16. Newton and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence / Domenico Bertoloni Meli.
