Newton and the origin of civilization / Jed Z. Buchwald & Mordechai Feingold.
Pubblicazione:
Princeton : Princeton university press, c2013.
Descrizione fisica:
IX, 528 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. List of tables. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Troubled senses 2. Torubled numbers 3. Erudition and chronology in seventeenth century England 4. Isaac Newton on prophecies and idolatry 5. Aberrant numbers: the propagation of mankind before and after the deluge 6. Newtoniana history 7. Text and testimony 8. Interpreting words 9. Publcation and reaction 10. The war on Newton in England 11. The war on Newton in France 12. The demise of chronology 13. Evidence and history. Appendix A. Signs, conventions, dating and definitions. Appendix B. Newton's computational methods. Appendix C. Commented extracts from Newton's MS calculations. Appendix D. Placing colures on the original star globe. Appendix E. Hesiod, Thales and stellar rising and settings. Bibliography. Index
