Isaac Newton'un mektup muhaberâtından bazı örnekleri ve felsefî yazılarını derleyen bir denemedir. (original) (raw)

I learned most of what I know about Newton first from Bertoloni Meli and Michael Friedman, and later from George Smith; I am grateful for all their advice over the years. Christian Johnson produced an amended version of the A. R. and Marie Boas Hall translation of De Gravitatione with my assistance; I am grateful for his expert work on that difficult text. Since the time the volume was first proposed, through its final production, my editors at Cambridge, Des Clarke and Hilary Gaskin, have shown great patience and much wisdom. One couldn't find a more supportive partner or a better interlocutor than Rebecca Stein, who always finds time amidst her myriad publishing projects to talk with me about mine. I'd like to dedicate this volume to my wonderful mom, Joan Saperstan, and to the memory of my dad, Chester Janiak (-); I only wish he were here to see it. vii  Quoted by Richard Westfall, Never at Rest (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ), . This passage from Newton's "Scheme for establishing the Royal Society" represents a contribution to the debate between naturalists and mathematically minded philosophers in the Royal Society before Newton ascended to its Presidency. For a discussion, see Mordechai Feingold, "Mathematicians and Naturalists," in Jed Buchwald and I. Bernard Cohen (eds.), Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, ).