The Winding Trail to Newton's Principia Mathematica
$158.46
- Hardcover
392 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2027
Summary
An intellectual biography of the seventeenth-century masterwork that set down the laws of motion and universal gravitation and ushered in modern physics
Long regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science, Isaac Newton’s Principia laid the mathematical foundations of classical mechanics, planetary motion, and the laws of gravity. Jed Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold trace the long, wandering path by which these groundbreaking ideas took …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691287782 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691287783 |
| Author: | Jed Z. Buchwald, Mordechai Feingold |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 392 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“Penetrating and intriguing.”—Andrew Robinson, Nature
Jed Z. Buchwald
Jed Z. Buchwald is the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. His books include (with Diane Greco Josefowicz) The Riddle of the Rosetta.
Mordechai Feingold is the Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of the History of Science and the Humanities at the California Institute of Technology. His books include (with Jed Z. Buchwald) Newton and the Origin of Civilization.
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