Dana Densmore has provided the guide that is needed if one is to follow the central argument of Newton's "Principia" with comprehension and assurance. She probes the implications of Newton's often cryptic formulations.

Newton's Principia: The Central Argument. Translation, Notes, and Expanded Proofs by Isaac Newton, Dana Densmore (1996) Paperback

Science & Math

Dana Densmore

Isaac, Newton

Mathematics

Green Lion Press

Joe Sachs has followed up his brilliant translation of Aristotle's Physics with a new translation of Metaphysics. Sachs's translations bring distinguished new light onto Aristotle's works, which are foundational to history of science. Sachs translates Aristotle with an authenticity that was lost when Aristotle was translated into Latin and abstract Latin words came to stand for concepts Aristotle expressed with phrases in everyday Greek language. When the works began being translated into English, those abstract Latin words or their cognates were used, thus suggesting a level of jargon and abstraction, and in some cases misleading interpretation, which was not Aristotle's language or style. These important new translations open up Aristotle's original thought to readers.

Metaphysics

Politics & Social Sciences

Aristotle

Philosophy

Aristotle's Metaphysics

Conics Books I-III

A completely new edition of Taliaferro?s translation of the first three books of Apollonius?s Conics with all new diagrams. It is the only English translation of these books other than Heath?s out-of-print version which is a modernized retelling rather than a true translation. This 3rd Century BCE work displays astonishing virtuosity in the treatment of conic sections in the classical synthetic geometrical manner. It is the culmination of Greek geometry and, in turn, provided a basis for the work of modern mathematicians and scientists such as Vieta, Descartes, Kepler, and Newton. Includes many corrections to the old edition?s text, translation, and notes, all new diagrams, an index, a bibliography, and an introductory essay by Harvey Flaumenhaft. Design and layout make it easy to read and work with, with diagrams repeated on every spread, adequate space for notes, and high quality paper to prevent show-through.

Apollonius, Of Perga

A completely new edition of Taliaferro?s translation of the first three books of Apollonius?s Conics with all new diagrams. It is the only English translation of these books other than Heath?s out-of-print version which is a modernized retelling rather than a true translation. This 3rd Century BCE work displays astonishing virtuosity in the treatment of conic sections in the classical synthetic geometrical manner. It is the culmination of Greek geometry and, in turn, provided a basis for the work of modern mathematicians and scientists such as Vieta, Descartes, Kepler, and Newton. Includes many corrections to the old edition?s text, translation, and notes, all new diagrams, an index, a bibliography, and an introductory essay by Harvey Flaumenhaft. Design and layout make it easy to read and work with, with diagrams repeated on every spread, adequate space for notes, and high quality paper to prevent show-through.

William H. Donahue

In this engaging piece of detective work, Nicholas Kollerstrom has combined historical research with computer analysis to investigate long-unanswered questions about Newton's lunar theory of 1702 (whose complete text is included). The lunar theory turns out to have been the basis for numerous eighteenth century tables, and was used in China well into the twentieth century. It was taken (heavily disguised) into the Principia of 1713, with one important correction. In this form, it was remarkably accurate, about as good as the observations on which it was based, and was used by Halley (in a procedure explained here for the first time) to compute lunar positions with an accuracy of under one arcminute―-good enough to have won the longitude prize.

Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory: His contribution to the quest for longitude

Kollerstrom, Nicholas

Astronomy & Space Science

Facsimile Reprint of 1944 Edition. 1464 pages.

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES in ELECTRICITY (Volumes 1, 2 & 3)

Literature & Fiction

Michael Faraday

Classics

The Optics was a product of Kepler's most creative period. It began as an attempt to give astronomical optics a solid foundation, but soon transcended this narrow goal to become a complete reconstruction of the theory of light, the physiology of vision, and the mathematics of refraction. The result is a work of extraordinary breadth whose significance transcends most categories into which it might be placed. It gives us precious insight into Kepler's thought during this crucial period, an insight all the more valuable in that most of his working papers from that time have been lost. Second, it is the culmination of a long and rich tradition in the science of optics, in distinct contrast with the new optical thought represented by Descartes. And third, it presents discoveries in the physiology of vision, photometry, and the geometry of conic sections which have become part of our intellectual heritage. Especially notable are Kepler's discovery of the inverted retinal image, his theoretical grounding of the inverse-square photometric law, and his insights into the relations between the various conic sections.

Optics

Kepler, Johannes

Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity: Guide to a first reading

In this guidebook to Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity, Howard Fisher guides the reader through Faraday's work, displaying Faraday's experimental virtuosity and keen theoretical insight. Fisher has a wonderful way of seeing the philosophical and literary aspects that make Faraday's Researches not cold science but a human work. Fisher's thoughtful selections and clear, helpful explanations of the instrumentation and electromagnetic phenomena make this fascinating text accessible to those who lack time to find their way through the labyrinths of the original.

Faraday,Michael

History & Philosophy

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Newton's Principia: The Central Argument. Translation, Notes, and Expanded Proofs by Isaac Newton, Dana Densmore (1996) Paperback

Metaphysics

Aristotle's Metaphysics

Conics Books I-III

Conics Books I-III

Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory: His contribution to the quest for longitude

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES in ELECTRICITY (Volumes 1, 2 & 3)

Optics

Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity: Guide to a first reading

Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity: Guide to a first reading