Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe

✍ Scribed by Elizabethanne A. Boran; Mordechai Feingold

Publisher: BRILL
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 368
Series: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe investigates how, when, where and why Newton's Principia was interpreted by readers in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, England and Ireland. University textbooks and popular simplified vernacular texts created new audiences for early modern science.

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