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Newton’s Scientific and Philosophical Legacy

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    Chapter 1 Newton, the Man — Again
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    Chapter 2 Newton’s Third Law and Universal Gravity
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    Chapter 3 Newton’s Alchemy and His ‘Active Principle’ of Gravitation
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    Chapter 4 Newton’s Biblical Theology and His Theological Physics
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    Chapter 5 Newton’s ‘Opticks’ and the Incomplete Revolution
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    Chapter 6 Newton’s Pendulum Experiment and Specific Characteristics of his Scientific Method in Physics
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    Chapter 7 The Surprises of Newtonian Determinism
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    Chapter 8 Newton’s Conception of Time in Modern Physics and Philosophy
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    Chapter 9 Gravitation and Nineteenth-Century Physical Worldviews
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    Chapter 10 Electricity in Eighteenth-Century Holland: A Newtonian Legacy
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    Chapter 11 Reconciliation of the Newtonian Framework with Thermodynamics by the Reproducibility of a Collective Physical Quantity
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    Chapter 12 Newtonian Gravitational Theory and General Relativity in the Light of the Correspondence between their Mathematical Models
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    Chapter 13 Chemical Affinity in the 19th Century and Newtonianism
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    Chapter 14 Newton, Lavoisier and Modern Science
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    Chapter 15 Inertia, the Innate Force of Matter: A Legacy from Newton to Modern Physics
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    Chapter 16 A Characterization of the Newtonian Paradigm
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    Chapter 17 Newton’s Mathematization of Physics in Retrospect
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    Chapter 18 Probability, Planets, and Newton’s Methodology
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    Chapter 19 Isaac Newton’s Legacy: An Insight into Resilient Patterns of Thought
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    Chapter 20 Newton’s Construction of the Law of Gravitation
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    Chapter 21 Partnership in Glory: Newton and Locke Through the Enlightenment and Beyond
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    Chapter 22 What Survives from the Classical Concept of Absolute Time
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    Chapter 23 Newton’s Theory of Matter
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    Chapter 24 Ethics, Politics and Sociology as Newtonian Sciences
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    Chapter 25 Aristotle Wittgenstein, Alias Isaac Newton between Fact and Substance
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Title
Newton’s Scientific and Philosophical Legacy
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 1988
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-2809-1
ISBNs
978-9-40-092809-1, 978-9-02-473723-9, 978-9-40-107764-4
Editors

Paul B. Scheurer, G. Debrock

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 1 14%
Professor 1 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 14%
Student > Master 1 14%
Researcher 1 14%
Other 1 14%
Unknown 1 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 2 29%
Arts and Humanities 1 14%
Philosophy 1 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 14%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 1 14%