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Newton and the origin of civilization / Jed Z. Buchwald & Mordechai Feingold.
LIBRA QC16.N7 B93 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchwald, Jed Z.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
- Newton, Isaac.
- Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727--Philosophy.
- Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727--Public opinion.
- Scientists--England--Biography.
- Scientists.
- Public opinion.
- History.
- Civilization, Ancient--Philosophy.
- Civilization, Ancient.
- Chronology, Historical.
- Philosophy.
- England.
- Europe.
- Philosophers--England--Biography.
- Philosophers.
- Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Chronology of ancient kingdoms amended.
- Chronology, Historical--History--17th century.
- Europe--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Intellectual life.
- Public opinion--Europe--History--17th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 528 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Troubled Senses
- Troubled Numbers
- Erudition and Chronology in Seventeenth-Century England
- Isaac Newton on Prophecies and Idolatry
- Aberrant Numbers : The Propagation of Mankind before and after the Deluge
- Newtonian History
- Text and Testimony
- Interpreting Words
- Publication and Reaction
- The War on Newton in England
- The War on Newton in France
- The Demise of Chronology
- Evidence and History
- Appendix A: Signs, Conventions, Dating, and Definitions
- Appendix B: Newton's Computational Methods
- Appendix C: Commented Extracts from Newton's MS Calculations
- Appendix D: Placing Colures on the Original Star Globe
- Appendix E: Hesiod, Thales, and Stellar Risings and Settings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [489]-514) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691154787
- 0691154783
- OCLC:
- 792880975
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