Overview :Only a scholar as rich in learning as I. Bernard Cohen could do justice to a theme so subtle and yet so grand. Spanning five centuries and v... Read More
Overview :This volume presents Professor Cohen's original interpretation of the revolution that marked the beginnings of modern science and set Newton... Read More
Overview :Then came the Renaissance and with it Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Huygens, and Newton: giants who courageously remade the world into an ear... Read More
Overview :The great historian of science I. B. Cohen explores how numbers have come to assume a leading role in science, in the operations and structu... Read More
Overview :In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathe... Read More
Overview :In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathe... Read More
Overview :Thomas Jefferson was the only president who could read and understand Newton's Principia. Benjamin Franklin is credited with establishing th... Read More
Overview :Two volumes. Dust jacket clipped and very minimal soiling. Books are near fine. A critical facsimile edition of Newton's major work dealing ... Read More
Overview :Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences presents a sampling of work in the history of science by colleagues and former students and ass... Read More