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| Author | : Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521524872 |
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In this major re-evaluation of Isaac Newton's intellectual life, Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs shows how his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, and cosmology was intertwined with his study of alchemy. Directing attention to the religious ambience of the alchemical enterprise of early modern Europe, Dobbs argues that Newton understood alchemy - and the divine activity in micromatter to which it spoke - to be a much needed corrective to the overly mechanized system of Descartes. The same religious basis underlay the rest of his work. To Newton it seemed possible to obtain partial truths from many different approaches to knowledge, be it textual work aimed at the interpretation of prophecy, the study of ancient theology and philosophy, creative mathematics, or experiments with prisms, pendulums, vegetating minerals, light, or electricity. Newton's work was a constant attempt to bring these partial truths together, with the larger goal of restoring true natural philosophy and true religion.
| Author | : Thomas Levenson |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0151012784 |
Download Newton and the Counterfeiter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1695, counterfeiter William Chaloner was rapidly rising in London's underworld. Then he crossed paths with the formidable new Warden of His Majesty's Mint--renowned scientist Isaac Newton--and the two played out an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
| Author | : I. Bernard Cohen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 518 |
| Release | : 2002-04-25 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521656962 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Newton Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Newton's philosophical analysis of space and time /Robert Disalle --Newton's concepts of force and mass, with notes on the Laws of Motion /I. Bernard Cohen --Curvature in Newton's dynamics /J. Bruce Brackenridge and Michael Nauenberg --Methodology of the Principia /George E. Smith --Newton's argument for universal gravitation /William Harper --Newton and celestial mechanics /Curtis Wilson --Newton's optics and atomism /Alan E. Shapiro --Newton's metaphysics /Howard Stein --Analysis and synthesis in Newton's mathematical work /Niccolò Guicciardini --Newton, active powers, and the mechanical philosophy /Alan Gabbey --Background to Newton's chymistry /William Newman --Newton's alchemy /Karin Figala --Newton on prophecy and the Apocalypse /Maurizio Mamiani --Newton and eighteenth-century Christianity /Scott Mandelbrote --Newton versus Leibniz : from geomentry to metaphysics /A. Rupert Hall --Newton and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence /Domenico Bertoloni Meli.
| Author | : Michael Heyd |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2000-09-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004247173 |
Download "Be Sober and Reasonable" Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book analyses the theological, medical and scientific critique of “enthusiasm” — claims to direct divine inspiration — in early modern Europe, and the contribution of that critique to a more secular culture on the eve of the Enlightenment.
| Author | : Rob Iliffe |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 657 |
| Release | : 2016-04-07 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1107015464 |
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This new edition includes three updated chapters, a revised bibliography, new introduction and three entirely new chapters.
| Author | : John Glassie |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2013-11-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1594631891 |
Download A Man of Misconceptions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Scientific American Best Science Book of 2012 An Atlantic Wire Best Book of 2012 A New York Times Book Review “Editor's Choice” The “fascinating” (The New Yorker) story of Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric scholar-inventor who was either a great genius or a crackpot . . . or a bit of both. The interests of Athanasius Kircher, the legendary seventeenth-century priest-scientist, knew no bounds. From optics to music to magnetism to medicine, he offered up inventions and theories for everything, and they made him famous across Europe. His celebrated museum in Rome featured magic lanterns, speaking statues, the tail of a mermaid, and a brick from the Tower of Babel. Holy Roman Emperors were his patrons, popes were his friends, and in his spare time he collaborated with the Baroque master Bernini. But Kircher lived during an era of radical transformation, in which the old approach to knowledge—what he called the “art of knowing”— was giving way to the scientific method and modern thought. A Man of Misconceptions traces the rise, success, and eventual fall of this fascinating character as he attempted to come to terms with a changing world. With humor and insight, John Glassie returns Kircher to his rightful place as one of history’s most unforgettable figures.
| Author | : Paul Kleber Monod |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 607 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300195397 |
Download Solomon's Secret Arts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
DIVDIVThe late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational thought and empiricism also embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult./divDIV /divDIVAlthough public acceptance of occult and magical practices waxed and waned during this period they survived underground, experiencing a considerable revival in the mid-eighteenth century with the rise of new antiestablishment religious denominations. The occult spilled over into politics with the radicalism of the French Revolution and into literature in early Romanticism. Even when official disapproval was at its strongest, the evidence points to a growing audience for occult publications as well as to subversive popular enthusiasm. Ultimately, finds Monod, the occult was not discarded in favor of “reason� but was incorporated into new forms of learning. In that sense, the occult is part of the modern world, not simply a relic of an unenlightened past, and is still with us today./div/div
| Author | : Tessa Morrison |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2016-05-22 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1476625131 |
Download Isaac Newton and the Temple of Solomon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Isaac Newton published little but wrote hundreds of manuscripts, the bulk of them on alchemy, prophecy and theology. His writings on the Temple of Solomon have widely been thought to have been written in old age or possibly after a nervous breakdown in 1693. In fact, his study of the Temple spanned more than fifty years. This book examines Newton's work in the context of his times, when the Temple was a popular subject for academics, and models were displayed to the general public. The author provides insight into Newton's writings in Latin on Solomon's Temple, along with a model reconstructed from his interpretation of its structure, symmetry and proportional elegance.
| Author | : J.E. Force |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2006-04-18 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1402022387 |
Download Newton and Newtonianism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Newton's theology, his study of alchemy, the early reception of Newtonianism, & the history of Newtonian scholarship are topics included in the eleven essays that comprise this volume.
| Author | : Irena Štěpánová |
| Publisher | : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2014-09-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 802462379X |
Download Newton: Kosmos, Bios, Logos Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Irena Štěpánová in this book explores Isaac Newton’s engagement with ancient wisdom, the Hexameral tradition, Hermeticism, theology, alchemy as well as natural philosophy. In so doing, she brings together the established historiography with her own new insights. Štěpánová’s study is more than a study of Newton’s thought, for it contains a good deal of background on ancient (e.g., Hermeticism) and early modern thought (e.g., the Cambridge Platonists). She also uses the interpretative lenses of several contemporary Newton and non-Newton scholars in her work. Moreover, provides helpful summaries of Newton’s thought (e.g., his theology). Štěpánová has provided Newton scholarship a great service in this book, not only by making her Czech-language work available in English, but bringing to the English-language reader learning on Hebraic thought, philosophy of life and Hermeticism originally published in Czech. (Abstract from the review by Stephen David Snobelen Associate Professor, History of Science and Technology Programme, University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and Director of Newton Project Canada)
