Isaac Newton (37 page)

More, Henry.
An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether there be not a God
. London: Roger Daniel, 1653.

More, Louis Trenchard.
Isaac Newton: A Biography
. New York: Scribner, 1934.

Moretti, Tomaso.
A General Treatise of Artillery: or, Great Ordnance
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Murdin, Lesley.
Under Newton’s Shadow: Astronomical Practices in the Seventeenth Century
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Neugebauer, Otto.
The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
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Nicolson, Marjorie Hope.
Newton Demands the Muse: Newton’s Opticks and the Eighteenth Century Poets
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946.

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Science and Imagination
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Ornstein, Martha.
The Rôle of Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century
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Palter, Robert, ed.
The Annus Mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton: 1666–1966
. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1970.

Park, David.
The Fire within the Eye
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Pepys, Samuel.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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Porter, Roy; and Teich, Mikuláš, eds.
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Price, Derek J. de Solla. “Newton in a Church Tower: The Discovery of an Unknown Book by Isaac Newton.”
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Pyenson, Lewis; and Sheets-Pyenson, Susan.
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Raphson, Joseph.
The History of Fluxions
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Rattansi, Piyo M.
Isaac Newton and Gravity
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Ronan, Colin A.
Edmond Halley: Genius in Eclipse
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Royal Society.
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Russell, Bertrand.
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Sabra, A. I.
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———. “Newton’s Comets and the Transformation of Astrology.” In Patrick Curry, ed.,
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Secord, James A. “Newton in the Nursery: Tom Telescope and the Philosophy of Tops and Balls.”
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Shapin, Steven.
The Scientific Revolution
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A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
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Shapiro, Alan E.
Fits, Passions, and Paroxysms: Physics, Method, and Chemistry and Newton’s Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

———. “The Gradual Acceptance of Newton’s Theory of Light and Color, 1672–1727.
Perspectives on Science
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Socolow, Elizabeth Anne.
Laughing at Gravity: Conversations with Isaac Newton
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Spargo, P. E.; and Pounds, C. A. “Newton’s ‘Derangement of the Intellect’: New Light on an Old Problem.”
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Sprat, Thomas.
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Stayer, Marcia Sweet, ed.
Newton’s Dream
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Stewart, Larry. “Other Centres of Calculation, or, Where the Royal Society Didn’t Count: Commerce, Coffee-houses and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern London.”
British Journal for the History of Science
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The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660–1750
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Stimson, Dorothy.
Scientists and Amateurs: A History of the Royal Society
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Stuewer, Roger H. “Was Newton’s ‘Wave-Particle Duality’ Consistent with Newton’s Observations?”
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Stukeley, William.
Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton’s Life, 1752
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Telescope, Tom (pseudonym).
The Newtonian System of Philosophy: Explained by Familiar Objects, in an Entertaining Manner, for the Use of Young Persons
. London: William Magnet, 1798.

Theerman, Paul; and Seeff, Adele F., eds.
Action and Reaction: Proceedings
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Thorndike, Lynn.
A History of Magic and Experimental Science
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van Leeuwen, Henry G.
The Problem of Certainty in English Thought 1630–1690
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Waller, Maureen.
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Wallis, John.
A Defence of the Royal Society, and the Philosophical Transactions, in Answer to the Cavils of Dr. William Holder
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Walters, Alice N. “Ephemeral Events: English Broadsides of Early Eighteenth-Century Solar Eclipses.”
History of Science
37 (March 1999): 1–43.

Webster, Charles.
From Paracelsus to Newton: Magic and the Making of Modern Science
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Weinberg, Steven.
Facing Up
. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Weld, Charles Richard.
A History of the Royal Society, with Memoirs of the Presidents
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Westfall, Richard S.
Force in Newton’s Physics: The Science of Dynamics in the Seventeenth Century
. London: Macdonald, 1971.

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Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

———. “Newton and the Fudge Factor,”
Science
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Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958.

———. “Short-Writing and the State of Newton’s Conscience, 1662.”
Notes and Records of the Royal Society
18 (1963): 10.

Whiston, William.
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. William Whiston
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White, Lynn, Jr.
Medieval Technology and Social Change
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White, Michael.
Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer
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Whiteside, D. T. “The Expanding World of Newtonian Research.”
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———. “Isaac Newton: Birth of a Mathematician.”
Notes and Records of the Royal Society
19 (1964): 53–62.

———. “Newton’s Early Thoughts on Planetary Motion: A Fresh Look.”
British Journal for the History of Science
2 (December 1964): 117–37.

———. “Newton’s Marvellous Year: 1666 and All That.”
Notes and Records of the Royal Society
21 (1966): 32.

Wilkins, John.
Mathematical and Philosophical Works
. Facsimile of 1708 edition. London: Frank Cass, 1970.

Yeo, Richard.
Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

———. “Genius, Method, and Morality: Images of Newton in Britain, 1760–1860.”
Science in Context
2 (autumn 1988): 257.