Newton and the Netherlands: How Isaac Newton Was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic by N. Akkerman
Newton and the Netherlands: How Isaac Newton Was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic
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N. Akkerman
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Newton and the Netherlands: How Isaac Newton Was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic

Aup - Leiden University Press

N. Akkerman with P. Langman, Ad Maas, Eric Jorink

257 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history science medium-paced
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The Dutch Republic proved to be extremely receptive to the groundbreaking ideas of Isaac Newton (1643­-1727). Dutch scholars such as Willem Jacob Gravesande and Petrus van Musschenbroek played a crucial role in the dissemination of Newton's work, ...

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