Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Elizabethanne A. Boran, Mordechai FeingoldSeries:Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their InstitutionsTheme:Chronological Period/ModernPublish date:6/15/2017Pages:358
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004336643ISBN-10:9004336648UPC:9789004336643Book Category:History, Philosophy, ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, History & Surveys, HistoryBook Topic:Renaissance, ModernSize:9.30 x 6.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.518Product ID:SCZXW5EPTF
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe investigates how Sir Isaac Newton's Principia was read, interpreted and remodelled for a variety of readerships in eighteenth-century Europe. The editors, Mordechai Feingold and Elizabethanne Boran, have brought together papers which explore how, when, where and why the Principia was appropriated by readers in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, England and Ireland. Particular focus is laid on the methods of transmission of Newtonian ideas via university textbooks and popular works written for educated laymen and women. At the same time, challenges to the Newtonian consensus are explored by writers such as Marius Stan and Catherine Abou-Nemeh who examine Cartesian and Leibnizian responses to the Principia. Eighteenth-century attempts to remodel Newton as a heretic are explored by Feingold, while William R. Newman draws attention to vital new sources highlighting the importance of alchemy to Newton.
Contributors are: Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Claudia Addabbo, Elizabethanne Boran, Steffen Ducheyne, Moredechai Feingold, Sarah Hutton, Juan Navarro-Loidi, William R. Newman, Luc Peterschmitt, Anna Marie Roos, Marius Stan, and Gerhard Wiesenfeldt.
Contributors are: Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Claudia Addabbo, Elizabethanne Boran, Steffen Ducheyne, Moredechai Feingold, Sarah Hutton, Juan Navarro-Loidi, William R. Newman, Luc Peterschmitt, Anna Marie Roos, Marius Stan, and Gerhard Wiesenfeldt.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004336643ISBN-10:9004336648UPC:9789004336643Book Category:History, Philosophy, ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, History & Surveys, HistoryBook Topic:Renaissance, ModernSize:9.30 x 6.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.518Product ID:SCZXW5EPTF
Elizabethanne Boran, Ph. D. (1996), Trinity College, Dublin, is Librarian of the Edward Worth Library, Dublin. She is the editor of The Correspondence of James Ussher, 1600-1656, 3 vols (Dublin, 2015) and Aldines at the Edward Worth Library (Dublin, 2015).
Mordechai Feingold is Professor of History at Caltech. He is the editor of the journals Erudition and the republic of Letters (Brill) and History of Universities (Oxford). He is the author of a number of books, including The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560-1640 (1984); The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (2004); and Newton and the Origin of Civilization (2013), written with Jed Buchwald.
Mordechai Feingold is Professor of History at Caltech. He is the editor of the journals Erudition and the republic of Letters (Brill) and History of Universities (Oxford). He is the author of a number of books, including The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560-1640 (1984); The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (2004); and Newton and the Origin of Civilization (2013), written with Jed Buchwald.
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