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Philosophers at War: The Quarrel between Newton and Leibniz
A. Rupert Hall
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hardcover. A blow-by-blow account of the celebrated controversy over the invention of the calculus. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: PBX; PDX. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 685. (1980) Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Probably the most celebrated controversy in all of the history of science was that between Newton and Leibniz over the invention of the calculus. The argument ranged far beyond a mere priority dispute and took on the character of a war between two different philosophies of nature. Newton was the first to devise the methods of the calculus, but Leibniz (who independently discovered virtually identical methods) was the first to publish, in 1684. Mutual toleration passed into suspicion and, at last, denunciation of each by the other as a fraud and a plagiarist. The affair became a scandal, as British ... Read more
Probably the most celebrated controversy in all of the history of science was that between Newton and Leibniz over the invention of the calculus. The argument ranged far beyond a mere priority dispute and took on the character of a war between two different philosophies of nature. Newton was the first to devise the methods of the calculus, but Leibniz (who independently discovered virtually identical methods) was the first to publish, in 1684. Mutual toleration passed into suspicion and, at last, denunciation of each by the other as a fraud and a plagiarist. The affair became a scandal, as British ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521227322
SKU
KSG0035868
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