Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) left a voluminous legacy of writings. Despite his influence on the early modern period, his correspondence, manuscripts, and publications in natural philosophy remain scattered throughout many disparate editions. In this volume, Newton's principal philosophical writings, including excerpts from the Principia and the Opticks and a corrected translation of 'De Gravitatione', are collected in a single place. This newly expanded second edition of Philosophical Writings contains new excerpts from Newton's earliest optical writings, some of his unpublished reflections on the interpretation of Scriptural passages that concern the Earth's motion, and his correspondence with important figures in his day, including the theologian Richard Bentley, the mathematician Roger Cotes, and the philosopher G. W. Leibniz. The excerpts show in depth how Newton developed a number of highly controversial views concerning space, time, motion and matter and then defended them against the withering criticisms of his contemporaries.
Edited by:
Andrew Janiak (Duke University North Carolina) Imprint: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Edition: 2nd Revised edition Dimensions:
Height: 225mm,
Width: 150mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 360g ISBN:9781107615939 ISBN 10: 1107615933 Series:Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Pages: 246 Publication Date:14 August 2014 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction; Chronology; Further reading; Note on texts and translations; 1. 'New theory about light and colors' [1672]; 2. Correspondence with Robert Boyle [1679]; 3. De Gravitatione [date unknown]; 4. The Principia [1687, first edition]; 5. 'An account of the system of the world' [c.1687]; 6. Correspondence with Richard Bentley [1691–3]; 7. Correspondence with Leibniz [1693 and 1711–12]; 8. Correspondence with Roger Cotes [1713]; 9. An Account of the Book Entitled Commercium Epistolicum [1715]; 10. Queries to the Opticks [1721].
Andrew Janiak is Creed C. Black Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.
