The Cambridge Companion to Newton (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) 1st Edition by I. Bernard Cohen (PDF)

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Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and the natural sciences. In this volume a team of distinguished contributors examine all the main aspects of Newton’s thought, including not only his approach to space, time, mechanics, and universal gravity in his Principia, his research in optics, and his contributions to mathematics, but also his more clandestine investigations into alchemy, theology, and prophecy, which have sometimes been overshadowed by his mathematical and scientific interests.

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⭐A Kindle edition of this great feat of scholarship is very welcome indeed–the conversion of the text, however, leaves *a lot* to be desired.The criteria for a good Kindle version of an academic text are easy to enumerate: All footnotes and endnotes must be hyperlinked; all images must have high-res versions; the original paragraph/heading structure must *unequivocally* be reproduced in terms of the Kindle’s resources (e.g., if a certain type of heading is indicated in the original text by a different typeface, this cannot be reproduced on the Kindle; thus, other means must be employed, e.g., indentation, larger/smaller, bold or italic text, etc.); the text shouldn’t impose any sort of paragraph alignment (*especially* not ‘justified’), and let the device do its own typesetting. (Left on its own, the Kindle ‘justifies’ text very well.)I have been very impressed by some other releases for the Kindle, from Cambridge University Press–they were very well adapted to the device’s particular resources and limitations. THIS volume, however, is almost certainly the direct conversion of an ePub, into Mobipocket format. The text forces its own text alignment and *typeface*; not only are there occasional errors (missing paragraph breaks), but *none* of the endnotes have been hyperlinked, and neither is there *any indication* of print-version pagination (the Kindle *can* do this). One wonders how the *superb* papers in this volume are to be cited, from the Kindle version–by ‘location’ number? Kindle ‘location’s, however, are nowhere to be found in the print edition.These are extremely frustrating omissions. While it’s encouraging to see more professional titles coming to the Kindle, academic publishers *still* don’t seem to take the medium seriously enough.

⭐The Cambridge Companions are wonderful in concept and execution. I havethis book on my Kindle and.when I have a few minutes – airport, doctor’s office, etc. – Idip into it and find a few more nuggets to think about. Newton’s intellect is scarey.He must have been from the same planet De Vinci.

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