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[this web page last updated 26 November 2007]
We have taken the classic Heath translation, given it a completely
new layout with plenty of space and generous margins, and published
it in an affordable but sturdy student edition in one volume,
with minimal notes.
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A handy where-to-find-it pocket reference companion to Euclid's
Elements
Contains all of Euclid's propositions and diagrams, without the
proofs. .
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A revised edition of Taliaferro's translation of the first three
books of Apollonius's Conics. This 3rd Century BCE
work displays astonishing virtuosity in the treatment of conic sections
in the classical synthetic geometrical manner. It is the culmination
of Greek geometry and, in turn, provided a basis for the work of
modern mathematicians and scientists such as Vieta, Descartes, Kepler,
and Newton.
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Michael N. Fried
Green Lion Press has issued a first English translation of Book IV
of Apollonius's Conics, translated and annotated by Michael
N. Fried, as a companion volume to our edition of Conics Books
I-III.
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A handsome matched set of Apollonius Conics I-III and
Conics IV in deluxe library binding.
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Dana Densmore
This guidebook by Dana Densmore with translations and diagrams
by William H. Donahue makes the great adventure of Principia
available not only to modern scholars of history of science but
also to nonspecialist undergraduate students of humanities.
It moves carefully from Newton's definitions and axioms, through
the essential propositions, as Newton himself identified them, to
the establishment of universal gravitation and elliptical orbits.
Now in its third edition, the guidebook presents Newton's original
text (the selections newly translated for this edition), offers
notes and questions for pondering, and then expands Newton's sketched
proofs step by step. Following his original proofs exactly eliminates
the common confusions and misinterpretations of what Newton assumed
and what he proved in the course of the development of his great
work.
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Dana Densmore
A Science Classics Module for Humanities Studies
Newton’s new conception of the laws of the universe challenged
centuries of received opinion, and laid a new foundation for our
“common sense” understanding of the physical world. If
you have always wanted to know more about Newton’s achievement
but thought it was the exclusive province of experts, this little
book will guide you through the essentials of Newton’s argument
in his own words and using only elementary mathematics.
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 Nicholas
Kollerstrom
Around the turn of the eighteenth century, one of the most pressing
practical scientific problems was accurate prediction of the moon's
position. Although Isaac Newton had hoped to solve this problem
using the dynamic approach developed in Principia in 1687,
he never succeeded in doing so. Instead, he reverted to an old-fashioned
kinematic theory, using epicyclic motion. A terse summary of the
theory was published in 1702 by David Gregory as part of his Astronomiae
elementa.
The present work includes Newton's full text with annotations
explaining terms and relating the text to Kollerstrom's analysis.
In this detailed study, Kollerstrom solves the enigma of Newton's
"forgotten" lunar theory. He ascertains, for the first time ever,
just what Newton's theory did and did not achieve.
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Joe Sachs
Joe Sachs has followed up his success with his translation of Aristotle's
Physics with a new translation of Metaphysics. Sachs's
translation brings distinguished new light onto this Aristotle's
work, which is foundational to history of science, opening up Aristotle's
original thought to readers by using Aristotle's everyday language
rather than abstract Latinate words which distort his meaning.
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Joe Sachs
We continue Joe Sachs's new translations of Aristotle with On
the Soul, a work that contains not only Aristotle's treatment
of the psyche but also his theory of light and color. Again, Sachs's
fresh and jargon-free approach cuts through presuppositions and prejudices
that are associated with the idea of "soul." Includes Aristotle's
work On Memory and Recollection.
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Howard J. Fisher
Howard Fisher guides the reader through Faraday's Experimental
Researches in Electricity, displaying Faraday's experimental virtuosity
and keen theoretical insight. Fisher's thoughtful selections
and clear, helpful explanations of the instrumentation and elecromagnetic
phenomena make this fascinating text accessible to those who lack
time to find their way through the labyrinths of the original.
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Green Lion Press now offers this monumental work in a handsome facsimile
reprint of the three-volume first edition.
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Howard J. Fisher
A Science Classics Module for Humanities Studies
Faraday is also among the most accessible of writers, recounting
his researches not in the abstract symbols of analytic mathematics
but in vivid, lucid, English prose.
In this volume, Faraday boldly explores a new relation between magnetism
and electricity. As we follow his narrative we can both witness
and participate in his thinking, his questioning, and his insights.
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Thomas K. Simpson
A Literary Appreciation of Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity
and Magnetism
In this incisive work, Thomas Simpson shows that not only is
a literary reading of James Clerk Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity
and Magnetism possible, but that such a reading brings us
closer to Maxwell's underlying thought, revealing purposes that
reach far beyond the equations of electromagnetism..
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William H. Donahue
A first complete translation of Kepler's Ad Vitellionem paralipomena,
quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur (1604) by William H.
Donahue, the translator of Kepler's New Astronomy.
The Optics began as an attempt to give astonomical optics
a solid foundation and soon transcended this narrow goal to become
a complete reconstruction of the theory of light, the physiology
of vision, and the mathematics of refraction.
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William H. Donahue
A Science Classics Module for Humanities Studies
An annotated translation of selections from Kepler's greatest work.
Much of the book is nontechnical in nature, discussing gravity,
the earth's motion (in relation to both physics and scriptural interpretation),
and the physical aspects of the planets' motions. An excellent,
brief introduction to Kepler's thought.
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Michael J. Crowe
Notre Dame professor Michael Crowe is following up his deservedly popular Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution and Modern Theories of the Universe from Herschel to Hubble with
a guided sourcebook on motion and its causes. The book presents substantial
selections from the writings of Aristotle, Oresme, Galileo, Descartes,
Huygens, Newton, and Einstein, with an extensive commentary aimed at guiding
nonspecialist readers through the texts. At the same time, Crowe gives
a "hands-on" account of the growth of mathematical physics,
using only very simple algebra to re-state the less accessible earlier
mathematics. Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein is thus both
a vivid introduction to the history of mechanics and a textbook in elementary
mechanics.
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