Table of Contents

Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2
1: Preliminaries
2: Aristotle: first airing of the absolute/relative problem
3: Hellenistic astronomy: the foundations are laid
4: The Middle Ages: first stirrings of the scientific revolution
5: Copernicus: the flimsy arch
6: Kepler: the dominion of the sun
7: Galileo: the geometrization of motion
8: Descartes and the new world
9: Huygens: relativity and centrifugal force
10: Newton I: the discovery of dynamics
11: Newton II: absolute or relative motion
12: Post-Newtonian conceptual clarification of Newtonian dynamics
Abbreviations for works quoted frequently in the References
References
Index