Force and geometry in Newton's Principia / Francois De Gandt ; translated by Curtis Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gandt, François de, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Wilson, Curtis, translator.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton Legacy Library ; 312

Standardized Title:

Force et géométrie. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Principia.

Newton, Isaac.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book François De Gandt introduces us to the reading of Newton's Principia in its own terms. The path of access that De Gandt proposes leads through the study of the geometrization of force. The result is a highly original meditation on the sources and meaning of Newton's magnum opus.In Chapter I De Gandt presents a translation of and detailed commentary on an earlier and simpler version of what in 1687 became Book I of the Principia; here in clearer and starker outline than in the final version, the basic principles of Newton's dynamics show forth. Chapter II places this dynamics in the intellectual context of earlier efforts--the first seeds of celestial dynamics in Kepler, Galileo's theory of accelerated motion, and Huygens's quantification of centrifugal force--and evaluates Newton's debt to these thinkers. Chapter III is a study of the mathematical tools used by Newton and their intellectual antecedents in the works of Galileo, Torricelli, Barrow, and other seventeenth-century mathematicians. The conclusion discusses the new status of force and cause in the science that emerges from Newton's Principia.Originally published in 1995.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

CONVENTIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS

PREAMBLE

CHAPTER I. The De motu of 1684

CHAPTER II. Aspects of Force before the Principia

CHAPTER III. The Mathematical Methods

CONCLUSIONS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-293) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691631981

0691631980

9780691602516

0691602514

9781400864126

1400864127

OCLC:

884012562