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" Fits, passions, and paroxysms : "
Alan E. Shapiro.
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878923
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Shapiro, Alan E., (Alan Elihu),1942-
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Fits, passions, and paroxysms : : physics, method, and chemistry and Newton's theories of colored bodies and fits of easy reflection /\ Alan E. Shapiro.
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Cambridge ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 1993.
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xvii, 400 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0521405076
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: 9780521405072
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-390) and index.
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Frequently cited writings by Newton -- pt. I. Physics and Method: Newton's Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits. 1. Historical and philosophical background. 1.1. Introduction, historiographical and historical. 1.2. Hypotheses and the guest for certainty. 1.3. Transduction. 2. Newton's rings. 2.1. Newton, Hooke, and the colors of thin films. 2.2. Observations of Newton's rings. 2.3. The hypothesis of aethereal vibrations. 2.4. Describing Newton's rings: The nomograph. 3. The colors of natural bodies. 3.1. Boyle's considerations and Hooke's hypothesis. 3.2. Newton's phenomenological theory. 3.3. Newton's analogical theory. 3.4. No rational doubts. 4. The theory of fits. 4.1. Completing the Opticks. 4.2. The colors of thick plates. 4.3. From vibrations to fits. 4.4. The formal theory. 4.5. Conclusion and historical postscript -- pt. II. Physics and Chemistry: The Theory of Colored Bodies, the Chemists' Revolt, and Absorption Spectroscopy. 5. The glory years: 1704-1777.
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Building upon his pioneering investigation of the colors of thin films, Isaac Newton developed two influential theories, one on the structure of matter, explaining the colors of bodies, and the other on fits, describing the periodicity of light. Professor Alan Shapiro, editor of The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton, recounts the development of these theories based on his study of Newton's unpublished manuscripts, and analyzes their experimental foundation. He also shows the essential role that Newton's philosophy of science played in the formulation and reception of these theories.
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The second part of the book describes a vigorous dispute over Newton's theory of colored bodies waged by physicists and chemists for nearly fifty years, from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. Professor Shapiro's analysis of this previously unknown dispute and of the reasons for the chemists' attack on Newton's theory illuminates the nature and relation of physics and chemistry during this seminal period of their development.
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Newton, Isaac,1642-1727., Opticks.
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Newton, Isaac,1642-1727., Opticks.
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Newton, Isaac,1642-1727., Opticks.
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Newton, Isaac, 1643-1727
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Newton, Isaac,(1642-1727)
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Newton, Isaac,1643-1727.
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Newton, Isaac.
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Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.
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Color-- History.
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Interference (Light)-- History.
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Light, Corpuscular theory of-- History.
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Chemistry, Physical.
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Chimie physique et théorique.
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Couleur-- Histoire.
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Interférence (Optique)-- Histoire.
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Lumière, Théorie corpusculaire de la-- Histoire.
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33.18 classical optics.
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Absorptionsspektroskopie
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Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.
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Chimie physique et théorique.
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Color.
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Couleurs-- Histoire.
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Farbe
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Farbenlehre
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Geschichte
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Interference (Light)
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Interférence (optique)-- Histoire.
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Interferenz
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Korpuskulartheorie
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Licht
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Light, Corpuscular theory of.
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Lumière-- Histoire.
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Optik
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Physikalische Chemie
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Kleurtheorie.
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Lichttheorie.
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Opticks (Newton, Isaac)
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| Dewey Classification
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535/.12
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| LC Classification
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QC402.S53 1993
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33.01bcl
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33.18bcl
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PHY 350nstub
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PHY 361nstub
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UB 2420rvk
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