The Newtonian Revolution

Author : I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521273803

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The Newtonian Revolution by I. Bernard Cohen Pdf

This volume presents Professor Cohen's original interpretation of the revolution that marked the beginnings of modern science and set Newtonian science as the model for the highest level of achievement in other branches of science. It shows that Newton developed a special kind of relation between abstract mathematical constructs and the physical systems that we observe in the world around us by means of experiment and critical observation. The heart of the radical Newtonian style is the construction on the mind of a mathematical system that has some features in common with the physical world; this system was then modified when the deductions and conclusions drawn from it are tested against the physical universe. Using this system Newton was able to make his revolutionary innovations in celestial mechanics and, ultimately, create a new physics of central forces and the law of universal gravitation. Building on his analysis of Newton's methodology, Professor Cohen explores the fine structure of revolutionary change and scientific creativity in general. This is done by developing the concept of scientific change as a series of transformations of existing ideas. It is shown that such transformation is characteristic of many aspects of the sciences and that the concept of scientific change by transformation suggests a new way of examining the very nature of scientific creativity.

Author : Irwin Bernard Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Physics, History
ISBN : OCLC:473314138

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The Newtonian Revolution. With Illustrations of the Transformation of Scientific Ideas by Irwin Bernard Cohen Pdf

Author : Robyn Arianrhod
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780199931613

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Seduced by Logic by Robyn Arianrhod Pdf

Du Chatelet translated Newton's Principia into French (it is still the accepted translation), and Somerville (100 years later) translated LaPlace's Celestial mechanics into English, where her translation served as an advanced textbook for many years.

Author : Margaret C. Jacob,Larry Stewart
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674039032

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Practical Matter by Margaret C. Jacob,Larry Stewart Pdf

Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart examine the profound transformation that began in 1687. From the year when Newton published his Principia to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science gradually became central to Western thought and economic development. The book aims at a general audience and examines how, despite powerful opposition on the Continent, a Newtonian understanding gained acceptance and practical application. By the mid-eighteenth century the new science had achieved ascendancy, and the race was on to apply Newtonian mechanics to industry and manufacturing. They end the story with the temple to scientific and technological progress that was the Crystal Palace exhibition. Choosing their examples carefully, Jacob and Stewart show that there was nothing preordained or inevitable about the centrality awarded to science. "It is easy to forget that science might have been stillborn, or remained the esoteric knowledge of court elites. Instead, for better and for worse, science became a centerpiece of Western culture."

Author : Z. Bechler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400977150

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Contemporary Newtonian Research by Z. Bechler Pdf

them in his cheat-preface to Copernicus De Revolutionibus, but the main change in their import has been that whereas Osiander defended Copernicus, Mach and Duhem defended science. The modem conception of hypothetico deductive science is, again, geared to defend the respectability of science in much the same way: the physical interpretation, it says, is merely and always hypothetical, and so the scientist is never really committed to it. Hence, when science sheds the physical interpretation off its mathematical skeleton as time and refutation catch up with it, the scientist is not really caught in error, for he never was committed to this interpretation in the first place. This is the apologetic essence of present day, Popper-like, versions of the idea of science as a mathematical-core-cum-interpretational shell. This is also Cohen's view, for it aims to free Newton of any existential commitment to which his theory might allegedly commit him. It will be readily seen that Cohen regards this methodological distinction between mathematics and physics to be the backbone of the Newtonian revolution in science (which is, in its tum, the climax of the whole Scientific Revolution) for a very clear reason: it enables us to argue that Newton could use freely the new concept of centripetal force, even though he did not be lieve in physical action at a distance and could not conceive how such a force could act to produce its effects". ([3] pp.

Author : Stephen Prickett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521009839

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Narrative, Religion and Science by Stephen Prickett Pdf

Stephen Prickett explores the 'narrative' in ways of thinking about the world over 300 years.

Author : Patricia Fara
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198841029

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Life After Gravity by Patricia Fara Pdf

The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is celebrated throughout the world as a great scientific genius who conceived the theory of gravity. But in his early fifties, he abandoned his life as a reclusive university scholar to spend three decades in London, a long period of metropolitan activity that is often overlooked. Enmeshed in Enlightenment politics and social affairs, Newton participated in the linked spheres of early science and imperialist capitalism. Instead of the quiet cloisters and dark libraries of Cambridge's all-male world, he now moved in fashionable London society, which was characterized by patronage relationships, sexual intrigues and ruthless ambition. Knighted by Queen Anne, and a close ally of influential Whig politicians, Newton occupied a powerful position as President of London's Royal Society. He also became Master of the Mint, responsible for the nation's money at a time of financial crisis, and himself making and losing small fortunes on the stock market. A major investor in the East India Company, Newton benefited from the global trading networks that relied on selling African captives to wealthy plantation owners in the Americas, and was responsible for monitoring the import of African gold to be melted down for English guineas. Patricia Fara reveals Newton's life as a cosmopolitan gentleman by focussing on a Hogarth painting of an elite Hanoverian drawing room. Gazing down from the mantelpiece, a bust of Newton looms over an aristocratic audience watching their children perform a play about European colonialism and the search for gold. Packed with Newtonian imagery, this conversation piece depicts the privileged, exploitative life in which this eminent Enlightenment figure engaged, an uncomfortable side of Newton's life with which we are much less familiar.

Author : Wilbur Applebaum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1628 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135582555

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Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution by Wilbur Applebaum Pdf

With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference work addresses the individuals, ideas, and institutions that defined culture in the age when the modern perception of nature, of the universe, and of our place in it is said to have emerged. Covering the historiography of the period, discussions of the Scientific Revolution's impact on its contemporaneous disciplines, and in-depth analyses of the importance of historical context to major developments in the sciences, The Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution is an indispensible resource for students and researchers in the history and philosophy of science.

Author : Gale E. Christianson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780199762361

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Isaac Newton by Gale E. Christianson Pdf

In 1665, when an epidemic of the plague forced Cambridge University to close, Isaac Newton, then a young, undistinguished scholar, returned to his childhood home in rural England. Away from his colleagues and professors, Newton embarked on one of the greatest intellectual odysseys in the history of science: he began to formulate the law of universal gravitation, developed the calculus, and made revolutionary discoveries about the nature of light. After his return to Cambridge, Newton's genius was quickly recognized and his reputation forever established. This biography also allows us to see the personal side of Newton, whose life away from science was equally fascinating. Quarrelsome, quirky, and not above using his position to silence critics and further his own career, he was an authentic genius with all too human faults.

Author : Peter Rowlands
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786344045

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Newton - Innovation And Controversy by Peter Rowlands Pdf

Unique among celebrated scientists, Newton was equally gifted at theoretical physics, experimental physics and pure mathematics. He was also exceptional in another, less well-recognised sense. No one has come near to equalling his extraordinary analytical power.Analytically-derived truths are controversial because such truths can only be established by extended experimental verification or by their success in generating further truths by systematic development. While Newton's optics was ultimately established by the first method and his theory of gravity by the second, much of his work on other subjects, though equally powerful and innovative, has never been totally established as part of this analytical context. This book discusses why the innovations matter today and why they were, and sometimes still are, controversial.Published as the third of a three-part set for Newtonian scholars, historians of science, philosophers of science and others interested in Newtonian physics.All Titles: 1.Newton and Modern Physics 2.Newton and the Great World System 3.Newton — Innovation and Controversy

Author : Margaret J. Osler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521667909

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Rethinking the Scientific Revolution by Margaret J. Osler Pdf

This collection reconsiders canonical figures and the formation of disciplinary boundaries during the Scientific Revolution.

Author : Richard S. Westfall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041053625

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Newton and the Scientific Revolution by Richard S. Westfall Pdf

Author : Danah Zohar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9789811678493

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Zero Distance by Danah Zohar Pdf

"When Danah Zohar first published the early ideas of her Quantum Management Theory in the late 1990's, she articulated a new paradigm, inspired by quantum physics, and began a major contribution to our search for a new management theory that can replace outdated Taylorism. Now, in ZERO DISTANCE, the most comprehensive account of her project, she outlines how the theory has been implemented through the revolutionary RenDanHeyi business model of China's Haier Group, and subsequently several other large companies. Zohar's suggestion that the Haier model also offers a new social and political model is thought provoking. This book is a significant addition to our continuing conversation about the best way to manage companies and other human social systems. I recommend it highly." - Gary Hamel, London Business School, Author of Humanocracy This open access book offers a new management meta-theory to replace Taylorism. It presents a new paradigm in management thinking and a new, practical organizational model for implementing it in our personal and working lives, in our companies, in our communities and nations, and in a sustainable global order. It will offer an understanding of why and how "thinking-as-usual" is failing both business and political leaders in these new times, and it will advocate new thinking and new management practices that are so radically new that they turn everything we have taken for granted inside out and upside down. This new management model is called "Quantum Management Theory", because it is rooted in the new paradigm bequeathed to us by quantum physics and its younger sibling, complexity science. Danah Zohar is a physicist, philosopher, and management thought leader. She is a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management and a Visiting Professor at the China Academy of Art.

Author : Margaret C. Jacob
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501742255

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The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720 by Margaret C. Jacob Pdf

This book offers a social history of Newtonian natural philosophy from its inception after the 1688 revolution in England until the 1720's. Ms. Jacob shows that the Newtonian world view was adopted by the Anglican church to support its own version of liberal Protestantism and its vision of a social and economic order that would be both Christian and capitalist. It was with Newton's consent, she asserts, that Newtonianism took on an ideological significance in the early Enlightenment. Using an interdisciplinary approach to subjects traditionally reserved for the history of science, church history, and intellectual history, she formulates a convincing new explanation for the triumph of Newtonianism.

Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Science
ISBN : OCLC:1303903719

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn Pdf