Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard university press, 1965 (stampa 2013)
Descrizione fisica:
VIII, 288 p. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: 1. The significance of the Newtonian synthesis 2. Concept and experience in Newton's scientific thought 3. Newton and Descartes. Appendices: A. Huygens and Leibniz on universal attraction B. Attraction an occult quality? C. Gravity an essential property of matter? D. The void and extension E. Rohault and Clarke on attraction F. Copernicus and Kepler on gravity G. Gassendi on attraction and gravity H. Hooke on gravitational attraction I. Gassendi and horizontal motion J. The state of motion and the state of rest K. Descartes on the infinite and the indefinite L. God and the infinite M. Motion, space and place. 4. Newton, Galileo and Plato 5. An unpublished letter of Robert Hooke to Isaac Newton 6. Newton's Regulae philosophandi 7. Attraction, Newton and Cotes. Index
