The Correspondence of Isaac Newton

Name: The Correspondence of Isaac Newton
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

The Correspondence of Isaac NewtonAuthor(s): Isaac Newton, A. Rupert Hall, Laura Tilling\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521085939, 978-0521085939\nSynopsis\nThis fifth volume presents the surviving correspondence from the period of almost four years which is, from a bibliographical point of view, the most important time in Newton's life: with Roger Cotes, Newton revised his Philosophise Naturalis Principia Mathematics and saw it through the press. Considered as a single group of letters, the Newton-Cotes correspondence is the largest and most important section of Newton's scientific correspondence that we have. Nowhere else can one witness Newton in a detailed debate about scientific argument and scientific conclusions a debate from which he did not always emerge victorious. Nowhere else does Newton write in detail about the text of the Principia. And all scholars agree that this text which.