Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings

Isaac Newton

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511809293

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) left a voluminous legacy of writings. Despite his influence on the early modern period, his correspondence, manuscripts, and publications in natural philosophy remain scattered throughout many disparate editions. In this volume, Newton's principal philosophical writings are for the first time collected in a single place. They include excerpts from the Principia and the Opticks, his famous correspondence with Boyle and with Bentley, and his equally significant correspondence with Leibniz, which is often ignored in favor of Leibniz's later debate with Samuel Clarke. Newton's exchanges with Leibniz place their different understandings of natural philosophy in sharp relief. The volume also includes 'De Gravitatione', offered here in a corrected translation, which is crucial for understanding Newton's relation to his great predecessor Descartes. In a historical and philosophical introduction, Andrew Janiak examines Newton's philosophical positions and his relations to canonical figures in early modern philosophy.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Chronology
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Further reading
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Note on texts and translations
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I - Correspondence with Robert Boyle [1679]
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II - De Gravitatione [probably before 1685]
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III - The Principia [1687, first edition]
pp 40-93
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IV - Correspondence with Richard Bentley [1692–3]
pp 94-105
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V - Correspondence with Leibniz [1693 and 1712]
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VI - Correspondence with Roger Cotes [1713]
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VII - An Account of the Book Entitled Commercium Epistolicum [1715]
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VIII - Queries to the Opticks [1721]
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Index
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CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp ix-xxxi

Chronology
pp xxxii-xxxiii

Further reading
pp xxxiv-xxxvi

Note on texts and translations
pp xxxvii-xl

I - Correspondence with Robert Boyle [1679]
pp 1-11

II - De Gravitatione [probably before 1685]
pp 12-39

III - The Principia [1687, first edition]
pp 40-93

IV - Correspondence with Richard Bentley [1692–3]
pp 94-105

V - Correspondence with Leibniz [1693 and 1712]
pp 106-117

VI - Correspondence with Roger Cotes [1713]
pp 118-122

VII - An Account of the Book Entitled Commercium Epistolicum [1715]
pp 123-126

VIII - Queries to the Opticks [1721]
pp 127-140

Index
pp 141-148

CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
pp 149-150

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