Essays on the life and work of Newton
By: by Augustus De Morgan, ed., with notes and appendices, by Philip E. B. Jourdain ...
Contributors: Jourdain, Philip E. B. 1879-1919.
Publisher: The Open court publishing company
Published: 1914
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.; Brewster, David, Sir, 1781-1868.
Table of contents: title: I. Newton (Appeared in the Cabinet portrait gallery of British worthies. 1846); title: II. A short account of some recent discoveries in England and Germany relating to the controversy on the invention of fluxions (From the Companion to the almanac. 1852) Appendix on the manuscripts and publications of Newton and Leibniz.; title: III. Review of Brewster's Memoirs of the life, writings, and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (From the North British review. 1855) Appendix I. De Morgan's view of Leibniz's character. Appendix II. Note by De Morgan on the character of Newton and on the actions of the Royal Society, written in 1858.