The Life of Isaac Newton Westfall, Richard. by Westfall, Richard

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Isaac Newton and the study of chronology : prophecy, history, and method / Cornelius J. Schilt. by Schilt, Cornelis Johannes, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Conventions -- Introduction -- 1 Past, Present, Future -- 1 Chronology as an Early Modern Discipline -- 2 The Four Monarchies -- 3 Isaac Newton ... Chronologist? -- 2 Reading Classics -- 1 Reading for the 'Origines' -- 2 Notes and Records -- 3 An Independent Scholar -- 3 Chaos and Order -- 1 The Origins of the 'Origines' -- 2 'Originals' -- 3 Ordering Words and Worlds -- 4 Lost in Space and Time -- 4 Sacred Chronology -- 1 Methodising the Apocalypse -- 2 Rooted in Scripture -- 3 Critical Readings…”
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Monetary history of gold : a documentary history, 1660-1999 / edited by Mark Duckenfield.

Table of Contents: “…'An Act to incourage the bringing Plate into the Mint to be Coined, and for the further Remedying the Ill State of the Coin of the Kingdom''An Act for Importing and Coining Guineas and Half-Guineas'; Correspondence of Isaac Newton; Report of the Board of Trade; Excerpts from Hopton Haynes's 'Brief Memoire relating to the Silver and Gold Coins of England'; Report of Isaac Newton (20 January 1701); Report of Isaac Newton to the Lords Commissioners of HisMajesty's Treasury; Report of Isaac Newton to Sidney Godolphin; Excerpt from John Law's famous tractMoney and Trade Considered…”
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Reading Newton in early modern Europe / edited by Elizabethanne Boran, Mordechai Feingold.

Table of Contents: “…; Part 3: Remodelling Newton; 11 Newton's Reputation as an Alchemist and the Tradition of Chymiatria; 12 Isaac Newton, Heretic? Some Eighteenth-Century Perceptions; Index…”
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Newton's dream / edited by Marcia Sweet Stayer ; consulting editor, Boris Castel.

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Newton and the Scientific Revolution -- Science, Rationality, and Newton -- Newton and Adam Smith -- Isaac Newton, Explorer of the Real World -- From White Dwarfs to Black Holes: The History of a Revolutionary Idea -- The Newtonian Contribution to Our Understanding of the Computer -- Newton's Dream -- Symmetry in Art and Nature -- Contributors -- Organizing Committee…”
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Newton and the origin of civilization / Jed Z. Buchwald & Mordechai Feingold. by Buchwald, Jed Z.

Table of Contents: “…Troubled Senses -- Troubled Numbers -- Erudition and Chronology in Seventeenth-Century England -- Isaac Newton on Prophecies and Idolatry -- Aberrant Numbers : The Propagation of Mankind before and after the Deluge -- Newtonian History -- Text and Testimony -- Interpreting Words -- Publication and Reaction -- The War on Newton in England -- The War on Newton in France -- The Demise of Chronology -- Evidence and History -- Appendix A: Signs, Conventions, Dating, and Definitions -- Appendix B: Newton's Computational Methods -- Appendix C: Commented Extracts from Newton's MS Calculations -- Appendix D: Placing Colures on the Original Star Globe -- Appendix E: Hesiod, Thales, and Stellar Risings and Settings.…”
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Elementary introduction to the Lebesgue integral / Steven G. Krantz. by Krantz, Steven G.

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Moduli Spaces Brambila-Paz, Leticia. by Brambila-Paz, Leticia, Newstead, Peter, Thomas, Richard, Garcia-Prada, Oscar

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Einstein's Gravity News, Science. by News, Science

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Significant figures : the lives and work of great mathematicians / Ian Stewart. by Stewart, Ian, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Do not disturb my circles: Archimedes -- Master of the Way: Liu Hui -- Dixit algorismi: Muhammad al-Khwarizmi -- Innovator of the infinite: Madhava of Sangamagrama -- The gambling astrologer: Girolamo Cardano -- The last theorem: Pierre de Fermat -- System of the world: Isaac Newton -- Master of us all: Leonhard Euler -- The heat operator: Joseph Fourier -- Invisible scaffolding: Carl Friedrich Gauss -- Bending the rules: Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky -- Radicals and revolutionaries: Évariste Galois -- Enchantress of a number: Augusta Ada King -- The laws of thought: George Boole -- Musician of the primes: Bernhard Riemann -- Cardinal of the continuum: Georg Cantor -- The first great lady: Sofia Kovalevskaia -- Ideas rose in crowds: Henri Poincaré -- We must know, we shall know: David Hilbert -- Overthrowing academic order: Emmy Noether -- The formula man: Srinivasa Ramanujan -- Incomplete and undecidable: Kurt Gödel -- The machine stops: Alan Turing -- Father of fractals: Benoit Mandelbrot -- Outside in: William Thurston -- Mathematical people.…”
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Newton by Janiak, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…7.1 Newton's Unique Approach to Theology and Natural Philosophy -- 7.2 Newton's Philosophical God -- 7.3 The God of the Philosophers and the God of the Bible -- notes -- bibliography -- 1. Works by Isaac Newton -- 2. Works by others -- index -- EULA…”
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The scientific revolution revisited / Mikuláš Teich. by Teich, Mikuláš

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And Yet It Is Heard Musical, Multilingual and Multicultural History of the Mathematical Sciences - Volume 2. by Tonietti, Tito

Table of Contents: “…10 Between Latin, French, English and German: The Language of Transcendence10.1 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; 10.2 Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Robert Hooke; 10.3 Symbolism and Transcendence; 11 Between Latin and French; 11.1 Jean-Philippe Rameau, the Bernoullis and Leonhard Euler; 11.2 Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot; 11.3 Counting, Singing and Listening: From Rameau to Mozart; 12 From French to German; 12.1 From Music-Making to Acoustics: Luigi Giuseppe Lagrange e Joseph Jean-Baptiste Fourier.…”
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Calculus reordered : a history of the big ideas / David M. Bressoud. by Bressoud, David M., 1950-

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Measure of the Earth : the enlightenment expedition that reshaped our world / Larrie D. Ferreiro. by Ferreiro, Larrie D.

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Transport Phenomena An Introduction to Advanced Topics. by Glasgow, Larry A.

Table of Contents: “…TRANSPORT PHENOMENA: An Introduction to Advanced Topics -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 INTRODUCTION AND SOME USEFUL REVIEW -- 1.1 A MESSAGE FOR THE STUDENT -- 1.2 DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS -- 1.3 CLASSIFICATION OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS -- 1.4 NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS FOR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS -- 1.5 VECTORS, TENSORS, AND THE EQUATION OF MOTION -- 1.6 THE MEN FOR WHOM THE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS ARE NAMED -- 1.7 SIR ISAAC NEWTON -- REFERENCES -- 2 INVISCID FLOW: SIMPLIFIED FLUID MOTION -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION -- 2.2 TWO-DIMENSIONAL POTENTIAL FLOW…”
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English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable. by Smith, Lacey Baldwin

Table of Contents: “…The Interregnum and the Search for LegalityCharles II and the Restored Monarchy (1660-1685); The Glorious Revolution (1688-1691); Sir Isaac Newton and the "Happy Childhood of Science"; War with France, The First Phase (1689-1713); London, "The Emporium of the World"; Two Out of Four Georges (1715-1760); Britain Cut Down to Size: The American Revolution (1776-1781); Four Revolutions: Industrial, Agricultural, Demographic, and Spiritual; Revolution French Style; Still More War with France (1793-1815); Final Triumph and Peace Settlement (1815); The Aftermath of War (1815-1832).…”
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Seki, founder of modern mathematics in Japan a commemoration on his tercentenary / Eberhard Knobloch, Hikosaburo Komatsu, Dun Liu, editors.

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