Article ID: CBB000101332

Cambridge: Newton's legacy (2001)

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Description Describes the importance of Newton's Opticks and Principia in the Cambridge Tripos examinations in mathematics from late 18th through late 19th century.


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Authors & Contributors
Bellhouse, David R.
Brock, William H.
Cormack, Lesley B.
Dear, Peter Robert
Delve, Janet
Despeaux, Sloan Evans
Journals
Science and Education
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Historia Mathematica
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
P. Lang
Springer
Concepts
Science education and teaching
Mathematics
Chemistry
Universities and colleges
Textbooks
Primary literature (historical sources)
People
Newton, Isaac
Whewell, William
Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguérite
Condorcet, Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Darwin, Charles Robert
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century
16th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
England
France
Europe
Greece
Portugal
Institutions
Cambridge University
Oxford University
École Polytechnique, Paris
Università di Roma
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