Standing on the shoulders of giants
Subtitle: a longer view of Newton and Halley
By: edited by Norman J.W. Thrower.
Contributors: Thrower, Norman Joseph William.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.; Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.; Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.; Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Astronomers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Essays commemorating the tercentenary of Newton's Principia and 1985-1986 return of Comet Halley."
Based on a conference held at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library of the University of California, Los Angeles, Aug. 11-14, 1985.