Life and Work of Newton (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Lever, Charles James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440067759 ISBN 13 : 9781440067754

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A clear, engaging look at how the calculus began and why its origins sparked debate.

This biography traces Isaac Newton’s role alongside Leibniz, and explains how early discoveries shaped modern mathematics. Delving into a pivotal era, the book presents the people, papers, and controversies that surrounded the birth of fluxions. It makes complex ideas accessible while keeping the human stories at the center.

• How Newton and Leibniz developed ideas that became differential calculus
• The key publications and the disputes that followed
• How early math was shaped by scientific communities and ongoing debates
• What these historical moments reveal about scientific progress

Ideal for readers curious about the origins of calculus, scientific rivalries, and the lives of the era’s great thinkers.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Newton appeared in The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies in 1846, and is the first essay printed in the present volume. It was, as Mrs De Morgan2 said, after Baily s Life of Flamsteed the first English work in which the weak side of Newton scharacter was made known. Justice to Leibniz, to Flamsteed, even to Whiston, called for this exposure ;and the belief that it was necessary did not lower the biographers estimate of Newton sscientific greatness, and of the simplicity and purity of his moral character. Francis Baily sdiscovery of the correspondence between the Rev. John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, and A braham Sharp, as well as between Newton, Halley, and Flamsteed, on the publication of Flamsteed scatalogue of stars, had thrown a new light 1V ol. xi, London, 1846, pp. 78-117. This series was edited by Charles Knight. A three-columned quarto edition in one volume, and giving no editorial credit, was published in London by Henry G. Bohn in 1853 under.the title Old England s Worthies: AG allery of Portraits. Besides the small woodcut portraits, it contains twelve full-page illuminated engravings. De Morgan s Newton occupies pp. 220- 224 of this edition. Memoir of Augustus De Morgan, London, 1882, p. 256. 3L ondon, 1835.
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Excerpt from Life and Work of Newton

Augustus De Morgan's biographical sketch entitled "Newton" appeared in The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies in 1846, and is the first essay printed in the present volume. It was, as Mrs De Morgan said, "after Baily's Life of Flamsteed, the first English work in which the weak side of Newton's character was made known. Justice to Leibniz, to Flamsteed, even to Whiston, called for this exposure; and the belief that it was necessary did not lower the biographer's estimate of Newton's scientific greatness, and of the simplicity and purity of his moral character.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440067759
• ISBN 13: 9781440067754
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 218
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