N.b.: I host
no works from Oxford University Press, because they are the only
publisher ever to ask me to remove their works.
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J. Butterfield and J. Earman (eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science:
Philosophy of Physics, Parts A and B, Elsevier,
2007
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C. Callender and N. Huggett (eds.), Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale:
Contemporary Theories in Quantum Gravity,
Cambridge University Press, 2001
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D. Dieks and M, Redei (ed.), The
Ontology of Spacetime, Elsevier, 2006
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J. Earman, C. Glymour, and J. Stachel (eds.), Foundations of Space-Time Theories
(Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. viii), Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1977
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W. Harper, R. Stalnaker, and G. Pearce (eds.), Ifs: Conditionals, Belief, Decision, Chance,
and Time, The University of Western Ontario
Series in Philosophy of Science, vol. 15, 1981
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D. Lehmkuhl, G. Schiemann, and E. Scholz (eds.), Towards a Theory of Spacetime
Theories, Springer, 2017
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M. Morgan and M. Morrison (eds.), Models as Mediators: Perspectives on Natural
and Social Science, Cambridge University Press,
1999
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Foundations of Space-Time Theories,
Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science, Vol. viii, 1977 (ed. with
C. Glymour and J. Stachel)
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A Primer on Determinism
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World Enough and Space-Time: Absolute versus
Relational Theories of Space and Time
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“The
Penrose-Hawking Singularity Theorems: History and
Implications”, in The Expanding
Worlds of General Relativity, eds. H. Goenner,
J. Renn, J. Ritter, T. Sauer, Einstein Studies vol. 7, 1999
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Probability, Statistics and Truth,
Revised English edition, prepared by H. Geiringer. A
republication of the 1957 edition of George Allen &
Unwin Ltd., based on the third German edition of 1951.
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“Realism
and Reason”, presidential address delivered before
the Seventy-Third Annual Eastern Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, Boston, MA, Dec 29, 1976
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Mathematics, Matter and Method: Philosophical
Papers, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press,
1975
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Mind, Language and Reality: Philosophical
Papers, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press,
1975
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Realism and Reason: Philosophical
Papers, Volume 3, Cambridge University Press,
1983
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“Closing
the Loop“, in Newton and
Empiricism, eds. Z. Biener and E. Schliesser, Oxford
University Press, 2014, ch. 10, pp. 262–351
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Curriculum Vitae
(including a complete bibliography of Stein’s work,
published and unpublished)
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“On
Metaphysics and Method in Newton” (unpublished
manuscript)
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“Nevvtonus
ab quibusdam nævibus vindicatus” (unpublished
manuscript)
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“Further
Considerations on Newton’s Method”
(unpublished manuscript)
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“Newton:
Philosophy of Inquiry and Metaphysics of Nature”
(unpublished manuscript)
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“How
Does Physics Bear upon Metaphysics; and Why Did Plato Hold
That Philosophy Cannot Be Written Down?”,
published in Studies in History and
Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and
Philosophy of Modern Physics, Volume 72, November
2020, Pages 152–161, DOI:10.1016/j.shpsb.2020.06.004. It was
originally a typed manuscript, given to Curiel by Stein in
1996, based on a talk Stein gave as an informal colloquium
to the University of Chicago philosophy department in
November 1995; that scan can be found here;
subsequently, Erik Curiel and Tom Pashby in March 2019
typeset the manuscript in LaTeX with minor
corrections, which can be found here;
finally, that typeset manuscript incorporating Stein’s
handwritten corrections and additions from May 2020 can be
found here.
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“Physics
and Philosophy Meet: the Strange Case of
Poincaré” (unpublished manuscript)
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“Newtonian
Space-Time”, Texas
Quarterly 10(1967):174–200.
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“On
the Notion of Field in Newton, Maxwell, and
Beyond” in R. Stuewer (ed.), Historical and Philosophical Perspective of
Science (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press,
1970), pp. 264–287. Includes comments by G. Buchdahl
and M. Hesse, and replies by Stein.
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“On
the Conceptual Structure of Quantum Mechanics”, in
Paradigms and Paradoxes: The
Philosophical Challenge of the Quantum Domain,
ed. Robert Colodny (University of Pittsburgh Series in the
Philosophy of Science, vol. V; Pittsburgh, PA: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 1972), pp. 367–438.
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“Some
Philosophical Prehistory of General Relativity”,
in J. Earman, C. Glymour, and J. Stachel (eds.), Foundations of Space-Time Theories
(Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. viii), Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1977, 3–49.
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“On
Space-Time and Ontology: Extract from a Letter to Adolf
Grünbaum”, in J. Earman, C. Glymour, and
J. Stachel (eds.), Foundations of
Space-Time Theories (Minnesota Studies in the
Philosophy of Science, vol. viii), Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1977, 374–402.
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“‘Subtler
Forms of Matter’ in the Period Following
Maxwell”, in G. Cantor and M. Hodge (eds.), Conceptions of Ether: Studies in the History of
Ether Theories, 1740–1900, Cambridge University
Press, 1981
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“On
the Present State of the Philosophy of Quantum
Mechanics”, PSA 1982,
vol. 2, pp. 563–581
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“After
the Baltimore Lectures: Some Philosophical Remarks on the
Subsequent Development of Physics”, in Kelvin’s Baltimore Lectures and Modern
Theoretical Physics, ed. Robert Kargon and Peter
Achinstein (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987),
pp. 375–398
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“Yes,
but …: Some Skeptical Remarks on Realism and
Anti-realism”, Dialectica, 1989, 43:47–65
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“On
Locke, ‘the Great Huygenius, and the Incomparable
Mr. Newton’”, Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian
Science, eds. P. Bricker and R. Hughes, MIT Press,
Cambridge MA, 1990.
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“‘From
the Phenomena of Motions to the Forces of Nature’:
Hypothesis or Deduction?”, Proceedings of the Biennial PSA
Conference, 1990, vol. 2, 209–222
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“Introductory
Note to the Paper of Kurt Gödel, ‘A Remark about
the Relationship between Relativity Theory and Idealistic
Philosophy’”, in Kurt
Gödel, Collected Works, Vol. ii, Publications
1938–1974, eds. S. Feferman, et
al.
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“Introductory
Note to the Paper of Kurt Gödel, ‘Some
Observations about the Relationship between Theory of
Relativity and Kantian Philosophy’”, in
Kurt Gödel, Collected Works,
Vol. iii,
Unpublished Essays and Lectures, eds. S. Feferman, et al.
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“Eudoxos
and Dedekind: on the Ancient Greek Theory of Ratios and Its
Relation to Modern Mathematics”, Synthese, 1990, 84:163–211.
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“On
Relativity Theory and Openness of the Future”,
Philosophy of Science, 1991,
58:147–167.
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“Was
Carnap Entirely Wrong, After All?”, Synthese, 1992, 93:275–295.
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“On
Philosophy and Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth
Century”, Midwest Studies in
Philosophy 18 (1993), 177–201.
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“Some
Reflections on the Structure of Our Knowledge in
Physics”, in eds. Prawitz, D. and B. Skyrms and
D. Westerståhl, Logic, Metholodogy
and Philosophy of Science, New York: Elsevier Science
B.V., 1994, 633–655. Proceedings of the Ninth
International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy
of Science
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“The
Enterprise of Understanding and the Enterprise of
Knowledge”, Synthese,
2004, 140:135–176
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“
‘Definability,’ ‘Conventionality,’
and Simultaneity in Einstein-Minkowski
Space-Time”, in W. Myrvold and J. Christian
(eds.), Quantum Reality, Relativistic
Causality, and Closing the Circle: Essays in Honor of Abner
Shimony, Springer, 2009
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“
Comments on ‘The Thesis of Parmenides’”
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“A
Note on Time and Relativity Theory”
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Abner Shimony, “The
Character of Howard Stein’s Work in Philosophy and
History of Physics”, Introduction to the
Festschrift for Stein Reading Natural
Philosophy: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science
and Mathematics, ed. D. Malament
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Notes
of Stein’s Lectures on Maxwell’s Theory of Electromagentism
and Its Development, May, 1994, from his seminar
“The Conceptual Development of Physics”, given
at the University of Chiago (notes taken by E. Curiel)
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Entry
“Howard Stein”, by André Carus, in
The Dictionary of Modern American
Philosophers, ed. J. R. Shook
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A. Ashtekar and V. Petkov (eds.), 2014, Springer Handbook of Spacetime,
Springer, Berlin
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L. Blanchet, A. Spallici, B. Whiting (eds.), 2011, Mass and Motion in General
Relativity, Springer, Berlin, Fundamental
Theories of Physics vol. 162
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M. Carmeli, S. Fickler and L. Witten (eds.), 1970, Relativity, Proceedings of the
Relativity Conference in the Midwest, held at Cincinnati,
Ohio, June 2–6, 1969; Plenum Press, NY
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S. Deser and K. Ford (eds.), 1965, Lectures on General Relativity: Brandeis Summer
Institute in Theoretical Physics, 1964, Volume 1,
lectures by Bondi (“Some Special Solutions of the
Einstein Equations”), Pirani (“Introduction to
Gravitational Radiation Theory”), and Trautman
(“Foundations and Current Problems of General
Relativity”)
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B. DeWitt and C. DeWitt (eds.), 1964, Relativity, Groups and Topology,
lectures delivered at Les Houches, 1963 Session of the
Summer School of Theoretical Physics, University of
Grenoble; Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, New York
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C. DeWitt and B. DeWitt (eds.), 1973, Black Holes lectures delivered at
Les Houches, 1972 Cours de l’École
d’été de Physique théorique; Gordon and
Breach Science Publishers, New York
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C. DeWitt and J. Wheeler (eds.), 1968, Battelle Rencontres, 1967 lectures
in mathematics and physics, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., New York
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J. Ehlers (ed.), 1967, Relativity Theory and Astrophysics:
1. Relativity and Cosmology, Proceedings of the
Summer School, Ithaca, NY, 1965, American Mathematical
Society, Providence, RI, Lectures in Applied Mathematics
vol. 8
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J. Ehlers (ed.), 1979, Isolated Gravitating Systems in General
Relativity, Italian Physical Society, Proceedings
of the International School of Physics 《Enrico
Fermi》 Course lxvii, Varenna, 28 Jun–10 Jul 1976;
North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam
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F. Esposito and L. Witten (eds.), 1977, Asymptotic Structure of Space-Time,
Proceedings of a Symposium on Asymptotic Structure of
Space-Time, held at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, June
14–18,1976; Plenum Press, NY
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D. Faccio, F. Belgiorno, S, Cacciatori, V. Gorini,
S. Liberati and U. Moschella (eds.), 2013, Analogue Gravity Phenomenology: Analogue
Spacetimes and Horizons, from Theory to
Experiment, Springer, Berlin, Lecture Notes in
Physics vol. 870
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G. Gibbons, E. Shellard and S. Rankin (eds.), 2003, The Future of Theoretical Physics and
Cosmology, Celebrating Stephen Hawking’s
60th birthday, Cambridge University Press
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J. J. Halliwell, J. Peérez-Mercarder and W. H. Zurek
(eds.), 1994, Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry,
Cambridge University Press
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A. Held (ed.), 1980, General Relativity and Gravitation: One Hundred
Years after the Birth of Albert Einstein, Volume
1, a publication of the International Society on
General Relativity and Gravitation, Plenum Press, NY
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A. Held (ed.), 1980, General Relativity and Gravitation: One Hundred
Years after the Birth of Albert Einstein, Volume
2, a publication of the International Society on
General Relativity and Gravitation, Plenum Press, NY
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S. Hawking and W. Israel (eds.), 1979, General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary
Survey, Cambridge University Press
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S. Hawking and W. Israel (eds.), 1987, 300 Years of Gravitation, Cambridge
University Press
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B. Hoffmann (ed.), 1966, Perspectives in Geometry and
Relativity, Essays in honor of Václav
Hlavatŷ, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN
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J. Isenberg (ed.), 1988, Mathematics and General Relativity,
Proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research
Conference held June 22–28, 1986; Contemporary
Mathematics vol. 71, American Mathematical Society,
Providence, RI
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W. Israel (ed.), 1973, Relativity, Astrophysics and
Cosmology, Proceedings of the Summer School,
14–26 Aug 1972, Banff, Alberta; D. Reidel Publishing
Co., Dordrecht
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M. Lichnerowicz and M. Tonnelat (eds.), Les Théories Relativistes de la
Gravitation, proceedings of a conference held at
Royaumont in June, 1959, published in 1962
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R. Sachs (ed.), 1971, General Relativity and Cosmology,
Italian Physical Society, Proceedings of the International
School of Physics 《Enrico Fermi》 Course xlvii, Varenna, 30
Jun–12 Jul 1969; Academic Press, NY
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R. Wald (ed.), 1998, Black Holes and Relativistic Stars,
Proceedings of a Symposium held in
memoriam Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 14–15 Dec
1996 at the University of Chicago; University of Chicago
Press
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L. Witten (ed.), 1962, Gravitation: An Introduction to Current
Research, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., NY
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Elementary Principles of Statistical Mechanics,
Developed with Especial Reference to the Rational Foundation
of Thermodynamics
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The Scientific Papers of J. Willard
Gibbs, h.d.,
ll.d., Volume i, Longmans, Green, and Co.:London, 1906
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The Scientific Papers of J. Willard Gibbs,
h.d.,
ll.d., Volume ii, Longmans, Green, and Co.:London, 1906
Books and Lecture Notes
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General Relativity from A to B,
University of Chicago Press, 1978
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Mathematical Physics,
University of Chicago Press, 1985
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Quantum Field Theory, Lecture Notes,
1971
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Differential Geometry, Lecture
Notes, 1972
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General Relativity, Lecture Notes,
1972
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Geometrical Quantum Mechanics,
Lecture Notes, 1974
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Infinite-Dimensional Manifolds,
Lecture Notes, 1975 (original
typed manuscript)
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Topology, Lecture
Notes, 1978
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Unsolvable Problems, Lecture Notes,
1990
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Computation—Quantum and
Otherwise, Unpublished Lecture Notes, 2006
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Perspectives in
Computation, Lecture Notes, 2007
Papers and Essays, Published (Hard to Find) and Unpublished
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“Energy
Extraction”, Annals of the New
York Academy of Sciences, 1973, 224:108–117
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“Gauge, Diffeomorphisms,
Initial-Value Formulation, Etc.”, in P. Chrusciel and
H. Friedrich (eds.), The Einstein
Equations and the Large Scale Behavior of Gravitational
Fields: 50 Years of the Cauchy Problem in General
Relativity, Birkhauser Verlag:Basel, 2004,
pp. 441–477
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“On
the Role of Math in Physics” (from chapter 1 of
his book Mathematical Physics)
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“Mathematical
Assertions” (unpublished remarks, 2007)
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“Definitions
for Manifolds, Measures and Hilbert Spaces”
(unpublished notes)
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“Measure
Theory” (unpublished notes)
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“Path
Integrals” (unpublished notes, 2007)
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“A
Watched Pot Never Boils?” (unpublished paper on
observation in quantum mechanics, 2008)
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“Preface”
to Principles of Mechanics by
H. Hertz (translated by D. Jones and T. Walley, no
copyright)
-
The Newton Project, http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/,
working towards online edition of all Newton’s writings,
published and unpublished
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Cambridge Library’s collection of images of Newton’s
original documents, http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1
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“De
Gravitatione et Æquipondio Fluidorum”
(selected passages; translation and interpolated commentary
by Howard Stein)
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“Author’s
Preface to the First Edition”, from his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica, the translation by A. Motte of the third
edition (1726), originally produced in 1729.
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“Rules
of Reasoning in Philosophy”, from his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica, the translation by A. Motte of the third
edition (1726), originally produced in 1729.
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica, Volume 1 (Books 1 and 2), the
translation by A. Motte of the third edition (1726),
originally produced in 1729, revised by F. Cajori in 1934.
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica, Volume 2 (Book 3, “The System
of the World”), the translation by A. Motte of the
third edition (1726), originally produced in 1729, revised
by F. Cajori in 1934.
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica, translated by I. Cohen and
A. Whitman (Author’s Preface; Definitions and
Scholium; Axioms, or the Laws of Motion and Scholium; Rules
for the Study of Natural Philosophy; General Scholium)
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections,
Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light,
1952 Dover reprint of the 1931 volume of G.~Bell and Sons,
Ltd., based on the fourth edition of William Innys, London,
1730; Foreward by Einstein, Introduction by E. Whittaker,
Preface by I. B. Cohen
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Isaac Newton’s Papers & Letters on
Natural Philosophy and Related Documents, edited
and with a general introduction by I. B. Cohen, Harvard
University Press, 1958.
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See also the listings for William
Harper, Robert DiSalle, George Smith, and Howard
Stein.
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I. Cohen and G. Smith (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Newton,
Cambridge University Press, 2004
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E. Curiel, A
Glossary for Newton’s Investigations on Light and
Color, a short glossary for the more obscure, archaic
and technical terms Newton and his contemporaries use, to
help the contemporary reader
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A. Janiak, Newton As Philosopher, Cambridge
University Press, 2008
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A. Janiak and E. Schliesser (eds.), Interpreting Newton: Critical
Essays, Cambridge University Press, 2013
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Space-Time-Matter
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The Classical Groups: Their Invariants and
Representations, Princeton University Press, 1946
(Second edition)
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Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural
Science, revised and augmented English version
based on the trans. by O. Helmer, Princeton University Press,
1949
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Mind and Nature: Selected Writings on Philosophy,
Mathematics, and Physics, trans. and ed. P. Pesic,
Princeton University Press, 2009
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Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on
Mathematics and Philosophy, trans. and
ed. P. Pesic, Dover Publications, Inc., 2012
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