Isaac Newton's philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica : 15-17 October 1987, Lublin, Poland
Creators
Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727
Subject
Mechanics--Congresses
Publisher
National Library Board Singapore,
World Scientific,
Contributors
Kaminski, W. A.
Digital Description
application/pdf, ports.
Table of Contents
reception, physical ideas, influence on science. A pre-Newtonian handbook of optics: Witelo's perspectiva / Pawel Czartoryski -- Newton's ideas at the Jesuit Universities of Slovakia / Karl A. F, Fischer -- The Newtonian concept of space and time / Stanislaw Mazierski -- The rotation in Newton's wording of his First law of motion / Martin Cernohorsky -- Primarily formulated scientific foundations of the rocket propulsion and launching of the artificial satellites in Newton's "Principia" / Mieczyslaw Subotowicz -- From Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein / Jerzy Rayski -- The correspondence between the Einsteinian and Newtonian theories of gravitation / Teresa Grabinska and Miroslaw Zabierowski -- Velocity of light / Maciej Suffczynski -- Newton and the mathematical concept of space / Roman Duda -- Investigations of the Comet Halley's motion: three centuries in a triumph of Newtonian mechanics / Krzysztof Ziolkowski -- II. Philosphiae naturalis principia mathematica: philosophical implications. Isaac Newton's philosophy of nature / Zygmunt Hajduk -- Newton's fields of study and methodological principia / Jan Such -- Methodological aspects of Newtonian revolution / Waclaw Mejbaum -- Epistemological obstacles in the scientific development / Zdzislaw Cackowski -- Were there scientific revolutions in physics between Newton and Einstein? / Wladyslaw Krajewski -- On the origins of modern experimental science / Zenon Roskal -- Can science free itself from the Newtonian paradigm? / Alina Motycka -- The Antinewtonian concept of the observer / Miroslaw Zabierowski -- The operationism postulate in the classical k inematics / Teresa Grahinska -- Author index -- Subject index.
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