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Standing on the shoulders of giants : a longer view of Newton and Halley / edited by Norman J.W. Thrower.

Title: Standing on the shoulders of giants : a longer view of Newton and Halley / edited by Norman J.W. Thrower.
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1990.

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Additional Authors

Thrower, Norman J. W. (Norman Joseph William)

Description

xxvi, 429 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

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Biographies

Note

"Essays commemorating the tercentenary of Newton's Principia and 1985-1986 return of Comet Halley."
Based on a conference held at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library of the University of California, Los Angeles, Aug. 11-14, 1985.

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Newton and Halley. Newton, Halley, and the system of patronage / Richard S. Westfall and Gerald Funk -- Newton, Halley, and the Royal Observatory / Derek Howse -- Newton, Halley, and the Paris Observatory / Suzanne Débarbat -- Newton. "Such an impertinently litigious lady" : Hooke's "great pretending" vs. Newton's Principia and Newton's and Halley's theory of comets / David Kubrin -- Halley's two essays on Newton's Principia / I. Bernard Cohen -- Newton's "sleeping argument" and the Newtonian synthesis of science and religion / James E. Force -- Newton as alchemist and theologian / B.J.T. Dobbs -- Halley. Halley and the dimensions of the solar system / Albert Van Helden -- Halley, surveyor and military engineer : Istria, 1703 / Alan H. Cook -- Captain Edmond Halley, F.R.S., Royal Navy, and the practice of navigation / D.W. Waters -- The royal patrons of Edmond Halley, with special reference to his maps / Norman J.W. Thrower.
Halley and the barometer / W.R. Albury -- Comets. The ancient history of Halley's comet / F. Richard Stephenson -- Halley, Delisle, and the making of the comet / Simon Schaffer -- Newton and the ongoing teleological role of comets / Sara Schechner Genuth -- The comet of 1680-1681 / Eric G. Forbes -- Edmund Halley : his interest in comets / David W. Hughes -- The first international Halley watch : guiding the worldwide search for comet Halley, 1755-1759 / Craig B. Waff.

ISBN

0520065891 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^90010715^

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