In his monumental 1687 work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics ...(展开全部)

Re-reads Deleuze's whole body of work, reassessing his philosophical genealogy, influences and political potential What gives us the right to speak of a Deleuzian philosophy, a philosophy at first sight concerned solely with interpreting other philosophers and writers? Koichiro Kokubun focuses on Deleuze's method of 'free indirect discourse' to locate and explicate Deleuze's ph...(展开全部)

Re-reads Deleuze's whole body of work, reassessing his philosophical genealogy, influences and political potential What gives us the right to speak of a Deleuzian philosophy, a philosophy at first sight concerned solely with interpreting other philosophers and writers? Koichiro Kokubun focuses on Deleuze's method of 'free indirect discourse' to locate and explicate Deleuze's ph...(展开全部)

Chu Hsi (1130-1200), author of the great Neo-Confucian synthesis, exerted a lasting influence on the thought & life of the Chinese in subsequent centuries. The core of his all-encompassing synthesis was moral & social philosophy, but it also included knowledge about the natural world. His doctrine of ke-wu (investigation of things) & his official duties made him mindful of the ...(展开全部)

The publisher, Prentice-Hall Humanities/Social Science This volume explores the logic and methodology of scientific inquiry rather than its substantive results.

The year 1694 saw the death of Samuel Pufendorf, who, with Hugo Grotius, was the foremost representative of the modern tradition of natural law theory, and the birth of Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, who helped transform the tradition and convey it to new generations. As professor of natural law in Geneva, Burlamaqui used Pufendorfs works on natural law but taught and wrote on the s...(展开全部)

伊恩•斯图尔特，英国皇家学会院士，毕业于剑桥大学（硕士）和华威大学（博士），拥有5个荣誉学位，。他先后出版了100多部著作，包括与特里•普拉切特（Terry Pratchett）、杰克•科恩（Jack Cohen）合著的《蝶形世界的科学》系列畅销书。他获得过英国皇家学会法拉第奖章、英国数学及应用研究所金奖、塞曼奖、路易斯•托马斯奖等，曾多次出现在电台和电视节目中，研究领域主要包括图形的形成、混沌、网络动态、生物数学等。