ISBN:
9789400928091
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (IX, 382 p)
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digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 123
Series Statement:
International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 123
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Keywords:
History
Abstract:
Preamble -- Newton, the Man — Again -- I: Newton’s Science -- Newton’s Third Law and Universal Gravity -- Newton’s Alchemy and his ‘Active Principle’ of Gravitation -- Newton’s Biblical Theology and his Theological Physics -- Newton’s ‘Opticks’ and the Incomplete Revolution -- Newton’s Pendulum Experiment and specific Characteristics of his Scientific Method in Physics -- II: Newton’s Scientific Heritage -- The Surprises of Newtonian Determinism -- Newton’s Conception of Time in Modern Physics and Philosophy -- Gravitation and Nineteenth-Century Physical Worldviews -- Electricity in Eighteenth-Century Holland: a Newtonian Legacy -- Reconcilation of the Newtonian Framework with Thermodynamics by the Reproducibility of a Collective Physical Quantity -- Newtonian Gravitational Theory and General Relativity in the Light of the Correspondence between their Mathematical Models -- Chemical Affinity in the 19th Century and Newtonianism -- III: Newton’s Methodological Heritage -- Newton, Lavoisier and Modern Science -- Inertia, the Innate Force of Matter: a Legacy from Newton to Modern Physics -- A Charactarization of the Newtonian Paradigm -- Newton’s Mathematization of Physics in Retrospect -- Probability, Planets, and Newton’s Methodology -- Isaac Newton’s Legacy: an Insight into Resilient Patterns of Thought -- Newton’s Construction of the Law of Gravitation -- IV: Newton’s Philosophical Heritage -- Partnership in Glory: Newton and Locke through the Enlightenment and beyond -- What Survives from the Classical Concept of Absolute Time -- Newton’s Theory of Matter -- Ethics, Politics and Sociology as Newtonian Sciences -- Aristotle Wittgenstein, alias Isaac Newton between Fact and Substance -- A Word About the Authors.
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-009-2809-1
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