Newton: Philosophical Writings

(Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Author Andrew Janiak

Format Paperback | 246 pages

Dimensions 152 x 224 x 16mm | 379g

Publication date 30 Sep 2014

Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Language English

Edition statement 2nd Revised edition

ISBN10 1107615933

ISBN13 9781107615939

內容簡介

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) left a voluminous legacy of writings. Despite his influence on the early modern period, his correspondence, manu*s, and publications in natural philosophy remain scattered throughout many disparate editions. In this volume, Newton's principal philosophical writings, including excerpts from the Principia and the Opticks and a corrected translation of 'De Gravitatione', are collected in a single place. 

This newly expanded second edition of Philosophical Writings contains new excerpts from Newton's earliest optical writings, some of his unpublished reflections on the interpretation of Scriptural passages that concern the Earth's motion, and his correspondence with important figures in his day, including the theologian Richard Bentley, the mathematician Roger Cotes, and the philosopher G. W. Leibniz. The excerpts show in depth how Newton developed a number of highly controversial views concerning space, time, motion and matter and then defended them against the withering criticisms of his contemporaries.