Readership: Historians of science, and philosophy. Undergraduate to postgraduate level mathematicians and physicists.
Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Indiana University, USA
"Bertoloni Meli's book provides a very detailed and deep analysis of Leibniz's calculus and dynamics by focusing on a consistent and important set of previously unknown manuscripts." - Annuals of Science
"quivalence and Priority is a major contribution to our understanding of the development of mathematical physics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century." - Physis
"Remarkable analysis of Leibniz's earliest thoughts of the Principa." - Times Higher Education Supplement
"Bertoloni Meli's important book, first published in 1993, well deserves to be issued in a paperback version." - Zentralblatt für Mathematik 876
"The book presents a lucidly written insight into the development of mathematical physics around the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth century and to the background of the analysis of Leibniz's reactions to Newton's Principia... The book provides an interesting reading and can be warmly recommended not only to those wishing to understand many facets of the Newton Leibniz rivalry, but to general readers with an interest in the history of mathematics." - European Mathematical Society Newsletter, June 1998, issue 28
General introduction 1: Astronomy and the Keplerian programme 2: Vortices and fluids: from gravity to elasticity 3: Geometry and the calculus 4: Mathematical representations of motion and force 5: The private itinerary 6: Publication 7: Reflections on Leibniz's theory and its development 8: A reappraisal of Newton's itinerary 9: The Reception of Newtonian and Leibnizian theories Appendix One Appendix Two Appendix Three Abbreviations Index
