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Books by Isaac Newton (5 P) Pages in category "Works by Isaac Newton" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. [5] Newton was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. [6]
(The context indicates that Newton was dealing here with infinitesimals or their limiting ratios.) This reappears in Book 1, Lemma 10 in the Principia. Then follow two more preliminary points: 2 Lemmas: 1: Newton briefly sets out continued products of proportions involving differences: if A/(A–B) = B/(B–C) = C/(C–D) etc., then A/B = B/C ...
Pages in category "Books by Isaac Newton" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Arithmetica ...
Arithmetica Title page (1707) Raphson 's Eng. Tr. (1720). Arithmetica Universalis ("Universal Arithmetic") is a mathematics text by Isaac Newton.Written in Latin, it was edited and published by William Whiston, Newton's successor as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended is a work of historical chronology written by Sir Isaac Newton, first published posthumously in 1728. [1] Since then it has been republished. The work, some 87,000 words, represents one of Newton's forays into the topic of chronology , detailing the rise and history of various ancient kingdoms ...
The Quaestiones contains notes from Newton's thorough reading of Descartes, Walter Charlton's translation of Gassendi into English, Galileo Galilei's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Robert Boyle, Thomas Hobbes, Kenelm Digby, Joseph Glanvill and Henry More, and others. These were set down under 45 section headings which he used ...
The books were a model of popular science exposition: although Newton's English is somewhat dated—he shows a fondness for lengthy sentences with much embedded qualifications—the book can still be easily understood by a modern reader. In contrast, few readers of Newton's time found the Principia accessible or even comprehensible. His formal ...