Contents

• Introduction / I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith
• 1. Newton’s philosophical analysis of space and time / Robert Disalle
• 2. Newton’s concepts of force and mass, with notes on the Laws of Motion / I. Bernard Cohen
• 3. Curvature in Newton’s dynamics / J. Bruce Brackenridge and Michael Nauenberg
• 4. The methodology of the Principia / George E. Smith
• 5. Newton’s argument for universal gravitation / William Harper
• 6. Newton and celestial mechanics / Curtis Wilson
• 7. Newton’s optics and atomism / Alan E. Shapiro
• 8. Newton’s metaphysics / Howard Stein
• 9. Analysis and synthesis in Newton’s mathematical work / Niccolo Guicciardini
• 10. Newton, active powers, and the mechanical philosophy / Alan Gabbey
• 11. The background to Newton’s chymistry / William Newman
• 12. Newton’s alchemy / Karin Figala
• 13. Newton on prophecy and the Apocalypse / Maurizio Mamiani - - 14. Newton and eighteenth-century Christianity / Scott Mandelbrote
• 15. Newton versus Leibniz: from geometry to metaphysics / A. Rupert Hall
• 16. Newton and the Leibniz -Clarke correspondence / Domenico Bertoloni Meli