Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method

摘要

Add to that his Opticks (1704), his discovery of infinitesimal calculus and the binomial theorem, his formulation of the three fundamental laws of motion, his analysis of white light, and one has yet only a partial image of his genius. Guicciardini's study is not an attempt to comment on or to challenge D.T. Whiteside's eight volume Mathematical Papers (1967-81) but is primarily an attempt to determine Newton's understanding of the role of mathematics in natural philosophy.