Isaac Newton: Philosophical writings

Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-150

  Janiak, Andrew ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511809293     Document Type: Book

References (39)

1. Ferdinand Rosen- berger’s., Isaac Newton und seine physikalischen Principien (Leipzig: J. A. Barth, 1895)
2. Léon Bloch’s., La Philosophie de Newton (Paris: Libraires Felix Alcan, 1903)
3. Alexandre Koyré’s., Newtonian Studies (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965)
4. I. Bernard Cohen’s., The Newtonian Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
5. Mary Hesse., Forces and Fields: The Concept of Action at a Distance in the History of Physics (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1961)
6. Richard Westfall., Force in Newton’s Physics: The Science of Dynamics in the Seventeenth Century (London: Macdonald, 1971)
7. Ernan McMullin., Newton on Matter and Activity (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1978)
8. A. I. Sabra., Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981, second edition), which is philosophically astute.
9. The Annus Mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton 1666–1966, edited by Robert Palter (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970)
10. Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science, edited by Philip Bricker and R. I. G. Hughes (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990)
11. Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophy, edited by Jed Buchwald and I. Bernard Cohen (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001)
12. The Cambridge Companion to Newton, edited by I. Bernard Cohen and George Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002); the last work contains an extensive bibliography of works by and about Newton.
13. John Herivel., The Background to Newton’s “Principia”: A Study of Newton’s Dynamical Researches in the Years 1664-1684 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965)
14. I. Bernard Cohen ’s., Introduction to Newton’s “Principia” (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971)
15. Bruce Brakenridge., The Key to Newton’s Dynamics: The Kepler Problem and the “Principia,” with translations by Mary Ann Rossi (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995)
16. Dana Densmore., Newton’s “Principia”: The Central Argument, with translations and illustrations by William Donahue (Santa Fe, NM: Green Lion Press, 1995)
17. Francois DeGandt., Force and Geometry in Newton’s “Principia”, translated by Curtis Wilson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995)
18. S. Chandrasekhar., Newton’s “Principia” for the Common Reader (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)
19. Nicholas Guicciardini., Reading the “Principia”: The Debate on Newton’s Mathematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
20. Sabra ’s., Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton
21. A. R. Hall ’s., And All Was Light: An Introduction to Newton’s “Opticks” (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)
22. Alan Shapiro ’s., Fits, Passions, and Paroxysms: Physics, Method, and Chemistry and Newton’s Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
23. Richard Westfall ’s., magisterial Never at Rest (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980)
24. The Life of Isaac Newton(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
25. Isaac Newton, Eighteenth-Century Perspectives, edited by A. Rupert Hall (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
26. I. Bernard Cohen ’s., entry on Newton in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume 10 (New York: Scribner’s, 1974).
27. Domenico Bertoloni Meli ’s., Equivalence and Priority: Newton vs. Leibniz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).
28. Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Margaret Jacobs., Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1995).
29. Isaac Newton’s “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica,” the Third Edition with Variant Readings, edited by Alexandre Koyre.
30. The “Principia”: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, a New Translation, translated by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, with Julia Budenz (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999)
31. Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light (New York: Dover, 1952)
32. Isaac Newton’s Theological Manuscripts, edited by Herbert McLachlan (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1950)
33. Isaac Newton’s Papers and Letters on Natural Philosophy, edited by I. Bernard Cohen and Robert Schofield (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978, revised edition)
34. Unpublished Scientific Papers of Isaac Newton, edited by A. R. Hall and Marie Boas Hall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962)
35. The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton, edited by D. T. Whiteside (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967-81)
36. The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton, volume 1: The Optical Lectures of 1670–1672, edited by Alan Shapiro (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
37. Certain Philosophical Questions: Newton’s Trinity Notebook, edited by J. E. McGuire and Martin Tamny (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
38. The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, edited by Herbert Turnbull, John Scott, A. R. Hall, and Laura Tilling (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959–77).
39. The Newton Project at Imperial College, London is an ongoing program to make all of Newton’s works, including extensive unpublished manuscript materials, available to the public via the Internet: .