Cambridge Companion to Newton Book

	List of figures
	List of contributors
	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Newton's philosophical analysis of space and time	33
2	Newton's concepts of force and mass, with notes on the Laws of Motion	57
3	Curvature in Newton's dynamics	85
4	The methodology of the Principia	138
5	Newton's argument for universal gravitation	174
6	Newton and celestial mechanics	202
7	Newton's optics and atomism	227
8	Newton's metaphysics	256
9	Analysis and synthesis in Newton's mathematical work	308
10	Newton, active powers, and the mechanical philosophy	329
11	The background to Newton's chymistry	358
12	Newton's alchemy	370
13	Newton on prophecy and the Apocalypse	387
14	Newton and eighteenth-century Christianity	409
15	Newton versus Leibniz: from geometry to metaphysics	431
16	Newton and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence	455
	Bibliography	465
	Index	481