III. Newton and Descartes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. I. The Significance of the Newtonian Synthesis 3
5. II. Concept and Experience in Newton's Scientific Thought 25
6. III. Newton and Descartes 53
7. IV. Newton, Galileo, and Plato 201
8. V. An Unpublished Letter of Robert Hooke to Isaac Newton 221
9. VI. Newton's "Regulae Philosophandi" 261
10. VII. Attraction, Newton, and Cotes 273
11. Index 283