Equivalence and Priority: Newton Versus Leibniz Including Leibniz's Unpublished Manuscripts on the Principia |
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| Author:
| Bertoloni Meli, Domenico |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-850143-5 |
| Publication Date: | May 1997 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $168.95AUD $153.59 |
Book Description:
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This book contains an edition of several hitherto unpublished manuscripts in Leibniz's hand illustrating his first reading of and reaction to Newton's Principia Mathematica. Dr Bertoloni Meli examines the important implications of this new material on our views about priority claims, the mathematization of nature, and the equivalence of rival theories in the seventeenth century.
This book contains an edition of several hitherto unpublished manuscripts in Leibniz's hand illustrating his first reading of and reaction to Newton's Principia Mathematica. Dr Bertoloni Meli examines the important implications of this new material on our views about priority claims, the mathematization of nature, and the equivalence of rival theories in the seventeenth century.