Opticks is Newton's most popular book. It is a complex work, the fruit of forty years of thought and investigation. Newton devoted various periods of experimentation to this final expression of his life's work and drew on the results of successive interactions with other scienti…
The annus mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton, 1666-1966
At the beginning of 1665, when Isaac Newton was twenty-three years old, he returned to his native village for a period of two years to escape the plague that had closed down Cambridge University. He later wrote that these years were his most fruitful and creative, and recalls in…
Philosophical perspectives on Newtonian science
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 o…
This dissertation examines the relationship between metaphysics and physics in the work of three figures from the early modern period—Isaac Newton, Émilie Du Châtelet, and Immanuel Kant. The first chapter draws on Newton's De gravitatione and correspondence with Richard Bentley …
