Book ID: CBB000330871

From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics (2003)

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Description Hawking, Stephen W. Foreword. Knox, Kevin C. and Noakes, Richard Introduction: “Mind Almost Divine”. Feingold, Mordechai Isaac Barrow and the Foundation of the Lucasian Professorship. Iliffe, Rob “Very Accomplished Mathematician, Philosopher, Chemist”---Newton as Lucasian Professor. Snobelen, S. and Stewart, L. Making Newton Easy: William Whiston in Cambridge and London. Gascoigne, J. Sensible Newtonians: Nicholas Saunderson and John Colson. Knox, Kevin C. The Negative Side of Nothing: Edward Waring, Isaac Milner and Newtonian Values. Schaffer, S. Paper and Brass: The Lucasian Professorship 1820--1839. Wilson, D. B. Arbiters of Victorian Science: George Gabriel Stokes and Joshua King. Warwick, A. “That Universal Aetherial Plenum”: Joseph Larmor's Natural History of Physics. Kragh, Helge Paul Dirac: The Purest Soul in an Atomic Age. Mialet, H. Is the End in Sight for the Lucasian Chair? Stephen Hawking as Millennium Professor. Stewart, I. Appendix. The Statutes of the Lucasian Professorship: A Translation.


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Review Grattan-Guinness, I. (2005) Review of "From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (p. 281). unapi

Review Fara, Patricia (2004) Review of "From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics". Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (p. 312). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Antonio Fundarò
Wood, Alastair
Whitaker, Andrew
Warwick, Andrew
Pourciau, Bruce H.
O'Connor, Anne
Journals
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Historia Mathematica
British Journal for the History of Science
Synthese
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Springer
Oxford University Press
Kluwer Academic
Aracne
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Universities and colleges
Mathematics
Mathematical physics
Physics
Science education and teaching
Geometry
People
Newton, Isaac
Hawking, Stephen W.
Whewell, William
Stokes, George Gabriel
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
De Morgan, Augustus
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19th century
17th century
20th century, early
Early modern
Modern
20th century, late
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England
Pisa (Italy)
Scotland
Spain
Portugal
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Cambridge University
Oxford University
Royal Society of London
Università di Roma
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