The Calculus Wars
Title | The Calculus Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Socrates Bardi |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2009-04-29 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0786733640 |
This vibrant and gripping history ultimately exposes how these twin mathematical giants (Newton, Leibniz) were proud, brilliant, at times mad, and in the end completely human.
Philosophers at War
Title | Philosophers at War PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Rupert Hall |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 2002-09-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521524896 |
A blow-by-blow account of the celebrated controversy over the invention of the calculus.
Space, Time, and Theology in the Leibniz-Newton Controversy
Title | Space, Time, and Theology in the Leibniz-Newton Controversy PDF eBook |
Author | Edward J. Khamara |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | 178 |
Release | 2013-05-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3110328305 |
In the famous Correspondence with Clarke, which took place during the last year of Leibniz’s life, Leibniz advanced several arguments purporting to refute the absolute theory of space and time that was held by Newton and his followers. The main aim of this book is to reassess Leibniz’s attack on the Newtonian theory in so far as he relied on the principle of the identity of indiscernibles. The theological side of the controversy is not ignored but isolated and discussed in the last three chapters, which deal with problems connected with the notions of omnipotence and omniscience.
Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton
Title | Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Hagengruber |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2011-10-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9400720939 |
Emilie du Châtelet was one of the most influential woman philosophers of the Enlightenment. Her writings on natural philosophy, physics, and mechanics had a decisive impact on important scientific debates of the 18th century. Particularly, she took an innovative and outstanding position in the controversy between Newton and Leibniz, one of the fundamental scientific discourses of that time. The contributions in this volume focus on this "Leibnitian turn". They analyze the nature and motivation of Emilie du Châtelet's synthesis of Newtonian and Leibnitian philosophy. Apart from the Institutions Physiques they deal with Emilie du Châtelet's annotated translation of Isaac Newton's Principia. The chapters presented here collectively demonstrate that her work was an essential contribution to the mediation between empiricist and rationalist positions in the history of science.
The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
Title | The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Clarke |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780719006692 |
In 1715 the German philosopher Leibniz warned his friend the Princess of Wales of the dangers posed to religion by Newton's ideas. This book presents extracts from Leibniz's letters to Newtonian scientist Samuel Clarke.
Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method
Title | Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method PDF eBook |
Author | Niccolò Guicciardini |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 449 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Mathematical analysis |
ISBN | 0262013177 |
An analysis of Newton's mathematical work, from early discoveries to mature reflections, and a discussion of Newton's views on the role and nature of mathematics.
Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant
Title | Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Lefèvre |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2001-09-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780792371984 |
This addresses the transformations of metaphysics as a discipline, the emergence of analytical mechanics, the diverging avenues of 18th-century Newtonianism, the body-mind problem, and philosophical principles of classification in the life sciences. An appendix contains a critical edition and first translation into English of Newton's scholia from David Gregory's Estate on the Propositions IV through IX Book III of his Principia.