- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Abbreviations and Conventions
-
I Preliminaries -
1 Newton on Mathematical Method: A Survey -
2 Newton on Certainty in Optical Lectures -
3 Descartes on Method and Certainty in the Géométrie -
II Against Cartesian Analysis and Synthesis -
4 Against Descartes on Determinate Problems -
5 Against Descartes on Indeterminate Problems -
6 Beyond the Cartesian Canon: The Enumeration of Cubics -
III New Analysis and the Synthetic Method -
7 The Method of Series -
8 The Analytical Method of Fluxions -
9 The Synthetic Method of Fluxions -
IV Natural Philosophy -
10 The Principia -
11 Hidden Common Analysis -
12 Hidden New Analysis -
V Ancients and Moderns -
13 Geometry and Mechanics -
14 Analysis and Synthesis -
VI Against Leibniz -
15 The Quarrel with Leibniz: A Brief Overview -
16 Scribal Publication, 1672−1699 -
17 Fluxions in Print, 1700−1715 - Conclusion
- A Brief Chronology of Newton’s Mathematical Work
- References
- Index
Fluxions in Print, 1700−1715
Fluxions in Print, 1700−1715
- Chapter:
- (p.365) 17 Fluxions in Print, 1700−1715
- Source:
- Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method
- Author(s):
Niccolò Guicciardini
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter explores the priorities and values that prompted Newton to finally move from scribal to printed publication. In 1704, Newton’s mathematical work Opticks got published, followed shortly by Enumeratio and De Quadratura. Newton’s De Quadratura became a required reading for his principia, as readers needed to understand the principles of the former to competently take on the more complex systems posited in the latter. The chapter then explores the circumstances surrounding the publication of Newton’s other works: The Arithmetica Universalis, the Commercium Epistolicum, and the “Account.”
Keywords: Newton, mathematical work, printed publication
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Abbreviations and Conventions
-
I Preliminaries -
1 Newton on Mathematical Method: A Survey -
2 Newton on Certainty in Optical Lectures -
3 Descartes on Method and Certainty in the Géométrie -
II Against Cartesian Analysis and Synthesis -
4 Against Descartes on Determinate Problems -
5 Against Descartes on Indeterminate Problems -
6 Beyond the Cartesian Canon: The Enumeration of Cubics -
III New Analysis and the Synthetic Method -
7 The Method of Series -
8 The Analytical Method of Fluxions -
9 The Synthetic Method of Fluxions -
IV Natural Philosophy -
10 The Principia -
11 Hidden Common Analysis -
12 Hidden New Analysis -
V Ancients and Moderns -
13 Geometry and Mechanics -
14 Analysis and Synthesis -
VI Against Leibniz -
15 The Quarrel with Leibniz: A Brief Overview -
16 Scribal Publication, 1672−1699 -
17 Fluxions in Print, 1700−1715 - Conclusion
- A Brief Chronology of Newton’s Mathematical Work
- References
- Index
