Author : Ken MacLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:808390515
Newton's Wake
Ken MacLeod
Newton S Wake
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Newton's Wake
Ken MacLeod
Author : Ken MacLeod
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429977210
Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod Pdf
With visionary epics like The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and Cosmonaut Keep, award-winning Scottish author Ken MacLeod has led a revolution in contemporary science fiction, blending cutting edge science and razor-sharp political insights with pure, over-the-top interstellar adventure. Now MacLeod takes this heady mix to a new level with a stunning new SF masterwork--Newton's Wake. In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture--a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive evolution of Earth's artificial intelligences into godlike beings--a few remnants of humanity managed to survive. Some even prospered. Lucinda Carlyle, head of an ambitious clan of galactic entrepreneurs, had carved out a profitable niche for herself and her kin by taking control of the Skein, a chain of interplanetary star-gates left behind by the posthumans. But on a world called Eurydice, a remote planet at the farthest rim of the galaxy, Lucinda stumbled upon a forgotten relic of the past that could threaten her way of life. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton’s Theology
J.E. Force,R.H. Popkin
Author : J.E. Force,R.H. Popkin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400919440
Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton’s Theology by J.E. Force,R.H. Popkin Pdf
This collection of essays is the fruit of about fifteen years of discussion and research by James Force and me. As I look back on it, our interest and concern with Newton's theological ideas began in 1975 at Washington University in St. Louis. James Force was a graduate student in philosophy and I was a professor there. For a few years before, I had been doing research and writing on Millenarianism and Messianism in the 17th and 18th centuries, touching occasionally on Newton. I had bought a copy of Newton's Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John for a few pounds and, occasionally, read in it. In the Spring of 1975 I was giving a graduate seminar on Millenarian and Messianic ideas in the development of modem philosophy. Force was in the seminar. One day he came very excitedly up to me and said he wanted to write his dissertation on William Whiston. At that point in history, the only thing that came to my mind about Whiston was that he had published a, or the, standard translation of Josephus (which I also happened to have in my library. ) Force told me about the amazing views he had found in Whiston's notes on Josephus and in some of the few writings he could find in St. Louis by, or about, Whiston, who was Newton's successor as Lucasian Professor of mathematics at Cambridge and who wrote inordinately on Millenarian theology.
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe
Elizabethanne A. Boran,Mordechai Feingold
Author : Elizabethanne A. Boran,Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004336650
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe by Elizabethanne A. Boran,Mordechai Feingold Pdf
Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe investigates how, when, where and why Newton’s Principia was interpreted by readers in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, England and Ireland. University textbooks and popular simplified vernacular texts created new audiences for early modern science.
The Life of Isaac Newton
Richard S. Westfall
Author : Richard S. Westfall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107569850
The Life of Isaac Newton by Richard S. Westfall Pdf
A concise biography of Isaac Newton, one of the greatest scientists in history.
Newton's Principia revisited
Michael Schmiechen
Author : Michael Schmiechen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783837053098
Newton's Principia revisited by Michael Schmiechen Pdf
PROBLEM. The treatise is devoted to the reconstruction of our 'instinctive beliefs' in classical mechanics and to present them 'as much isolated and as free from irrelevant additions as possible'. The same motivation has driven many authors since the publication of Newton's Principia. IMPORTANCE. Classical mechanics will remain the basic reference and tool for mechanics on terrestrial and planetary scale as well as the proto-theory of relativistic and quantum mechanics. But it can only serve its purpose if it is not considered as obsolete, but if its foundations and implications are understood and made 'absolutely' clear. METHOD. Based on the 'instinctive belief' that the foundations of classical mechanics cannot be found and reconstructed within mechanics itself but only 'outside', classical mechanics is 'understood' by embedding it into an adequate theory of knowledge and adequate proto- and meta-theories in terms of the 'language of dynamics'. Evidence is produced that available philosophical expositions are not adequate for the purpose at hand. Mechanics is treated as part of physics, not of mathematics. Not sophisticated mathematical artifacts, necessary for solving specific problems, but the intellectually satisfactory foundation of mechanics in general is subject and purpose of the exercise. The goal is reached using axiomatic systems as models. SCOPE. Following an account of the unsatisfactory state of affairs the treatise covers the epistemological foundations, abstract proto-mechanics, i. e. the theories of time and space, meta-mechanics, i. e. the theories of state space models and of quantities proper, and, as an instance of the latter, abstract elementary mechanics, the theory of translational motions of 'small' solid bodies in three-dimensional Euclidean space, including classical general relativity. Subsequently the theory of classical kinematics is developed as basis for interpreted proto-mechanics and interpreted elementary mechanics. As an amus
Recreating Newton
Rebekah Higgitt
Author : Rebekah Higgitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317314943
Recreating Newton by Rebekah Higgitt Pdf
Examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. This book focuses on 1820-70, a period that saw the creation of the specialized and secularized role of the 'scientist'. It shows how debates about Newton's character stimulated historical scholarship and led to the development of a new expertise in the history of science.
An Examination of the Fourteenth Chapter of Sir Isaac Newton's Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel
Zachary Grey
Author : Zachary Grey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1736
Category : Bible
ISBN : OXFORD:N11670727
An Examination of the Fourteenth Chapter of Sir Isaac Newton's Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel by Zachary Grey Pdf
The Named God And The Question Of Being
Stanley J. Grenz
Author : Stanley J. Grenz
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664235336
The Named God And The Question Of Being by Stanley J. Grenz Pdf
In this book, Stanley Grenz examines the long-standing trajectory of thought that has equated the concept of "being" with the God of the Bible--and thus claimed that the ontological category of being is the guiding concept by which God should be understood. Grenz extends the engagement between Christian theology and the Western philosophical tradition and focuses the discussion on the importance of naming, particularly given that the Christian God is both named and triune. In doing so, he organizes the book into three parts, forming an overarching story of the interplay between the named character of God and the question of being. First he analyzes the history of the philosophical concept of Being, then he shifts the focus to an exegesis of the "I Am" texts, and finally he moves to a renewed conversation between theology and ontological philosophy by means of the divine name.
Literature After Euclid
Matthew Wickman
Author : Matthew Wickman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812292534
Literature After Euclid by Matthew Wickman Pdf
What if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words, literary texts possessed a kind of mathematical unconscious? The persistence of the rhetoric of "two cultures," one scientific, the other humanities-based, obscures the porous border and productive relationship that has long existed between literature and mathematics. In eighteenth-century Scottish universities, geometry in particular was considered one of the humanities; anchored in philosophy, it inculcated what we call critical thinking. But challenges to classical geometry within the realm of mathematics obligated Scottish geometers to become more creative in their defense of the traditional discipline; and when literary writers and philosophers incorporated these mathematical problems into their own work, the results were not only ingenious but in some cases pioneering. Literature After Euclid tells the story of the creative adaptation of geometry in Scotland during and after the long eighteenth century. It argues that diverse attempts in literature and philosophy to explain or even emulate the geometric achievements of Isaac Newton and others resulted in innovations that modify our understanding of descriptive and bardic poetry, the aesthetics of the picturesque, and the historical novel. Matthew Wickman's analyses of these innovations in the work of Walter Scott, Robert Burns, James Thomson, David Hume, Thomas Reid, and other literati change how we perceive the Scottish Enlightenment and the later, modernist ethos that purportedly relegated the "classical" Enlightenment to the dustbin of history. Indeed, the Scottish Enlightenment's geometric imagination changes how we see literary history itself.
The Emergence of a Scientific Culture
Stephen Gaukroger
Author : Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191563911
The Emergence of a Scientific Culture by Stephen Gaukroger Pdf
Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its early development. Rejecting the traditional picture of secularization, he argues that science in the seventeenth century emerged not in opposition to religion but rather was in many respects driven by it. Moreover, science did not present a unified picture of nature but was an unstable field of different, often locally successful but just as often incompatible, programmes. To complicate matters, much depended on attempts to reshape the persona of the natural philosopher, and distinctive new notions of objectivity and impartiality were imported into natural philosophy, changing its character radically by redefining the qualities of its practitioners. The West's sense of itself, its relation to its past, and its sense of its future, have been profoundly altered since the seventeenth century, as cognitive values generally have gradually come to be shaped around scientific ones. Science has not merely brought a new set of such values to the task of understanding the world and our place in it, but rather has completely transformed the task, redefining the goals of enquiry. This distinctive feature of the development of a scientific culture in the West marks it out from other scientifically productive cultures. In The Emergence of a Scientific Culture, Stephen Gaukroger offers a detailed and comprehensive account of the formative stages of this development—-and one which challenges the received wisdom that science was seen to be self-evidently the correct path to knowledge and that the benefits of science were immediately obvious to the disinterested observer.
Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science
Matthew H. Slater,Zanja Yudell
Author : Matthew H. Slater,Zanja Yudell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199363209
Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science by Matthew H. Slater,Zanja Yudell Pdf
This volume of essays will explore the relationship between science and metaphysics, asking what role metaphysics should play in philosophizing about science. The essays will address this question both through ground-level investigations of particular issues in the metaphysics of science and more general methodological investigations. They thereby contribute to an ongoing discussion concerning the future, the limits, and the possibility of metaphysics as a legitimate philosophical project.
Routledge Library Editions: James Joyce
Various Authors
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 2084 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317269434
Routledge Library Editions: James Joyce by Various Authors Pdf
This set reissues 8 books on James Joyce originally published between 1966 and 1991. The volumes examine many of Joyce’s most respected works, including Finnegans Wake, Dubliners and Ulysses. As well as providing an in-depth analyses of Joyce’s work, this collection also looks at James Joyce in the context of the Modernist movement as a whole. This set will be of particular interest to students of literature.
The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment
J.B. Shank
Author : J.B. Shank
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226749471
The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment by J.B. Shank Pdf
Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton’s science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Terms like “Newtonianism” are routinely taken as synonyms for “Enlightenment” and “modern” thought, yet the particular conjunction of these terms has a history full of accidents and contingencies. Modern physics, for example, was not the determined result of the rational unfolding of Newton’s scientific work in the eighteenth century, nor was the Enlightenment the natural and inevitable consequence of Newton’s eighteenth-century reception. Each of these outcomes, in fact, was a contingent event produced by the particular historical developments of the early eighteenth century. A comprehensive study of public culture, The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment digsbelow the surface of the commonplace narratives that link Newton with Enlightenment thought to examine the actual historical changes that brought them together in eighteenth-century time and space. Drawing on the full range of early modern scientific sources, from studied scientific treatises and academic papers to book reviews, commentaries, and private correspondence, J. B. Shank challenges the widely accepted claim that Isaac Newton’s solitary genius is the reason for his iconic status as the father of modern physics and the philosophemovement.
José Celestino Mutis and Newtonianism in New Granada, 1762–1808
Sebastián Molina-Betancur
Author : Sebastián Molina-Betancur
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031287688
José Celestino Mutis and Newtonianism in New Granada, 1762–1808 by Sebastián Molina-Betancur Pdf
This book presents the process of circulation and adoption of Newtonianism in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia) in the eighteenth century by examining José Celestino Mutis’s lectures at the Colegio del Rosario between the 1760s and 1770s. Mostly famous for his botanical activities as director of the botanical expedition, Mutis lectured the first course of mathematics ever created in New Granada on his arrival in Bogota in 1762, in which he included several lectures on physics that encompassed multiple aspects of his interpretation of Newton’s experimental physics.