Introduction to Newton's "Principia"

Cohen, I. Bernard

ISBN 10: 0674461754 / ISBN 13: 9780674461758

Published by Harvard University Press, 1971

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Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with some loss. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xxviii, 380 pages, facsimiles, 29 cm. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to Newton's "Principia"
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674461754
• ISBN 13: 9780674461758
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 116 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science, Math, Space and Engineering

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About the Author

I. Bernard Cohen, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus, at Harvard University, is one of the founders of the modern study of the history of science.