Miller, Laura. Reading popular Newtonianism : print, the Principia, and the dissemination of Newtonian science

Folger bibliographic ID: 356372
Folger call number: QA803 .M55 2018
Folger holdings ID: 504557

"Reading Popular Newtonianism focuses on the reception of Sir Isaac Newton's works in a context framed by authorship, print, editorial practices, and reading. Using sustained archival work and multiple critical approaches, Laura Miller asserts that print facilitated the mainstreaming of Newton's ideas. In addition to Newton's reading habits and his manipulation of print conventions in the Principia, she analyzes the implied readership of various "popularizations" as well actual readers whose preferences we can trace and interpret based on the New York Society Library's borrowing records. By beginning with the publication of the Principia, Miller revises the timeline in which Newton's scientific ideas entered eighteenth-century culture"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index

Contents

Introduction -- 1. The weight of authority in Newton's reading and correspondence -- 2. Tthe attractions of print in the Principia -- 3. Newtonian popularization and masculinity in two poems about Newton -- 4. Extending popularization in English-language editions of Francesco Algarotti's works -- 5. Reading popular Newtonianism at the New York Society Library, 1789-1792

Extended title: Reading popular Newtonianism : print, the Principia, and the dissemination of Newtonian science / Laura Miller

Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Principia Principia (Newton, Isaac) Science publishing Physics Europe

author: Miller, Laura, 1975-