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Newton's Influence: The Apotheosis of Newton in Art, Francis Haskell The Philosophical Significance of Newton's Science, Dudley Shapere.Philosophical Analysis of Newton's Scientific Achievements: Newton and the Inductive method, Robert Palter Reactions of Late Baroque Mechanics to Success, Conjecture, Error, and Failure in Newton's Principia, C.Newton's Second Law and the Concept of Force in the Principia, I.Newton's Achievement in Dynamics, John Herivel.newton's and Leibniz' Dynamics, Pierre Costabel.Uneasily Fitful Reflections on Fits of Easy Transmission, Richard S.Sources and Strenghts of Newton's Early Mathematical Thought, D.

Newton's Scientific Achievements: Newton and the Theory of Matter, A.

Newton and His Society, Christopher Hill.

Newton's Life and Society: The Lad from Lincolnshire, Frank E. The major articles and their authors are as follows:Introduction, Robert Palter Several philosophers of science and practicing physicists have contributed evaluations of Newton's world within the framework of modern science.Īnother group of scholars was invited to write brief critical comments on most of the articles, and the dialogue that results, often spirited, will invite the reader to join in. Their authors include not only Newton specialists but, in order to provide the widest perspective, general historians of ideas, of science, of art, of philosophy and religion were invited as well. The articles in this book, many since expanded or revised, were originally prepared for that event. Three hundred years later, in order to commemorate Newton's best year by considering the whole of his life, work, outlook, and influence, the Conference on Newtonian Studies was held at the University of Texas. Recent Newtonian scholarship has effectively called his memory into question somewhat on these points, but the “marvelous year” of 1666 may surely be taken as symbolic of a decisive turning point I the history of human thought.

He later wrote that these years were his most fruitful and creative, and recalls in particular that in 1666 he developed the integral calculus, experimentally verified the composite nature of light, and refined his gravitational theory to the point that he was able to satisfy himself through calculation that the earth's gravity holds the moon in orbit. At the beginning of 1665, when Isaac Newton was twenty-three years old, he returned to his native village for a period of two years to escape the plague that had closed down Cambridge University.