UID:
almafu_9959242672402883
Format:
1 online resource (775 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-028515-X
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0-19-773220-8
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1-280-83331-9
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9786610833313
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0-19-535110-X
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
This book explains the history and philosophy that led to the development of classical dynamics by Newton, and then places Newtonian dynamics in the perspective of unresolved questions relating to the basic concepts of space, time and motion.
Note:
Originally published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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Previously issued in print: 2001.
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Contents; Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Aristotle: first airing of the absolute/relative problem; 3 Hellenistic astronomy: the foundations are laid; 4 The Middle Ages: first stirrings of the scientific revolution; 5 Copernicus: the flimsy arch; 6 Kepler: the dominion of the sun; 7 Galileo: the geometrization of motion; 8 Descartes and the new world; 9 Huygens: relativity and centrifugal force; 10 Newton I: the discovery of dynamics; 11 Newton II: absolute or relative motion?; 12 Post-Newtonian conceptual clarification of Newtonian dynamics
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Abbreviations for works quoted frequently in the ReferencesReferences; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-513202-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195132021.001.0001
