Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe

Elizabethanne Boran, Ph. D. (1996), Trinity College, Dublin, is Librarian of the Edward Worth Library, Dublin. She is the editor of The Correspondence of James Ussher, 1600-1656, 3 vols (Dublin, 2015) and Aldines at the Edward Worth Library (Dublin, 2015).Mordechai Feingold is Professor of History at Caltech. He is the editor of the journals Erudition and the republic of Letters (Brill) and History of Universities (Oxford). He is the author of a number of books, including The Mathematicians’ Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560-1640 (1984); The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (2004); and Newton and the Origin of Civilization (2013), written with Jed Buchwald.

“This is a well-balanced collection that will be of great value to Newtonian scholars. Summing up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty.” M. Dickinson, Maine Maritime Academy. In: Choice Connect, Vol. 55, No. 5 (January 2018). “This is a collection that includes a number of important papers, and it should not be overlooked by anyone with a serious interest in Newton or in eighteenth-century Newtonianism.”John Henry, University of Edinburgh (emeritus). In: Isis, Vol. 110, No. 1 (March 2019), pp. 168–169.“The volume Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe is an exemplary treatment of how revolutionary science becomes de rigeur, through its introduction, opposition to, and eventual overtaking of the preexisting paradig, in this brilliant composite study of how Newton’s mathematical and physical theories changed the nature of science, as taught and understood in early modern Europe.” Cheryl Kayahara-Bass, Oshawa, ON. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 557–560.

• List of Contributors 1 IntroductionElizabethanne BoranPart 1: Introducing Newton2 The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in NaplesClaudia Addabbo3 Newton and the Spanish ArtillerymenJuan Navarro Loidi4 The Practical Tradition of Dutch NewtonianismGerhard Wiesenfeldt5 Science for Ladies? Elizabeth Carter’s Translation of Algarotti and “popular” Newtonianism in the Eighteenth CenturySarah Hutton6 Irish Newtonian Physicians and Their Arguments: The Case of Bryan RobinsonA.M. Roos, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.S.A.Part 2: Challenging Newton7 Controversies over Comets: Isaac Newton, Nicolas Hartsoeker, and Early Modern World-makingCatherine Abou-Nemeh8 ’s Gravesande’s and Van Musschenbroek’s Appropriation of Newton’s Methodological IdeasSteffen Ducheyne9 Newton’s Concepts of Force among the LeibniziansMarius Stan10 How Did Berkeley Read Newton?Luc PeterschmittPart 3: Remodelling Newton11 Newton’s Reputation as an Alchemist and the Tradition of ChymiatriaWilliam R. Newman12 Isaac Newton, Heretic? Some Eighteenth-Century PerceptionsMordechai FeingoldIndex