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| Preface | ||
| Publications of D. T. Whiteside | ||
| I | Mathematics and astronomy before Newton | 1 |
| 1 | Lunar velocity in the Ptolemaic tradition | 3 |
| 2 | Shadow measurement: the Sciametria from Kepler's Hipparchus - a translation with commentary | 19 |
| 3 | Descartes, Pappus' problem, and the Cartesian Parabola: a conjecture | 71 |
| 4 | Honore Fabry (1607-1688) als Mathematiker - Eine Reprise | 97 |
| II | Newton's manuscripts | 113 |
| 5 | Sotheby's, Keynes and Yahuda - the 1936 sale of Newton's manuscripts | 115 |
| 6 | De Scriptoribus Chemicis: sources for the establishment of Isaac Newton's (al)chemical library | 135 |
| 7 | Beyond the dating game: watermark clusters and the composition of Newton's Opticks | 181 |
| III | Newton's Principia | 229 |
| 8 | The critical role of curvature in Newton's developing dynamics | 231 |
| 9 | Newton and the absolutes: sources | 261 |
| 10 | Newton's ontology of the force of inertia | 287 |
| 11 | Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: a treatise on 'mechanics'? | 305 |
| 12 | The review of the first edition of Newton's Principia in the Acta Eruditorum, with notes on the other reviews | 323 |
| 13 | Newton, Cotes, and [actual symbols not reproducible]2: a footnote to Newton's theory of the resistance of fluids | 355 |
| IV | Newton and eighteenth-century mathematics and physics | 369 |
| 14 | A study of spirals: Cotes and Varignon | 371 |
| 15 | The fragmentation of the European mathematical community | 383 |
| 16 | Euler on action-at-a-distance and fundamental equations in continuum mechanics | 399 |
| 17 | St Peter and the rotation of the earth: the problem of fall around 1800 | 421 |
| V | After Newton: optics and dynamics | 449 |
| 18 | Why Stokes never wrote a treatise on optics | 451 |
| 19 | Maxwell and Saturn's rings: problems of stability and calculability | 477 |
| 20 | Poincare, topological dynamics, and the stability of the solar system | 503 |
| Index | 525 |
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reviewed The Investigation of Difficult Things: Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of D. T. Whiteside on October 06, 2012 The Investigation of Difficult Things: Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of D. T. Whiteside
On Tycho's Island is a history of astronomy book that looks at the amazing astronomer Tycho Brahe and his island observatory. It takes a good look that the years that Tycho operated his observatory Uraniborg, but doesn't look too closely at the rest of Tycho's life. His early years are given brief treatment and his time in exile is only explored up to the time that he landed a position with the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. Largely missing is his time with Johannes Kepler, that is unless you read the biographical entries at the end of the book. The author appended biographies of virtually all of the people mentioned in the book, sometimes with information that was relevant to the life of Tycho, but often not. I would have preferred to have more info about Tycho himself in place of all of these biographical entries but I understand the author's rationale for including it.
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