The Investigation of Difficult Things: Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of D. T. Whiteside

Book Overview

A collection of twenty original essays on the history of science and mathematics. The topics covered embrace the main themes of Whiteside's scholarly work, emphasising Newtonian topics: mathematics and astronomy to Newton; Newton's manuscripts; Newton's Principia; Newton and eighteenth-century mathematics and physics; after Newton: optics and dynamics. The focus of these themes gives the volume considerable coherence. This volume of essays makes available...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052189266X
• ISBN13: 9780521892667
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.5" x 9.4"