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De Motu and the Analyst

A Modern Edition, with Introductions and Commentary

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  • © 1992

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Authors:
  1. George Berkeley
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Editors:
  1. Douglas M. Jesseph

    1. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

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Part of the book series: The New Synthese Historical Library (SYNL, volume 41)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  3. The Analyst

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Editor’s Introduction

      • George Berkeley
      Pages 111-155

    3. The Analyst

      • George Berkeley
      Pages 157-221

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 223-232
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About this book

Berkeley's philosophy has been much studied and discussed over the years, and a growing number of scholars have come to the realization that scientific and mathematical writings are an essential part of his philosophical enterprise. The aim of this volume is to present Berkeley's two most important scientific texts in a form which meets contemporary standards of scholarship while rendering them accessible to the modern reader. Although editions of both are contained in the fourth volume of the Works, these lack adequate introductions and do not provide com­ plete and corrected texts. The present edition contains a complete and critically established text of both De Motu and The Analyst, in addi­ tion to a new translation of De Motu. The introductions and notes are designed to provide the background necessary for a full understanding of Berkeley's account of science and mathematics. Although these two texts are very different, they are united by a shared a concern with the work of Newton and Leibniz. Berkeley's De Motu deals extensively with Newton's Principia and Leibniz's Specimen Dynamicum, while The Analyst critiques both Leibnizian and Newto­ nian mathematics. Berkeley is commonly thought of as a successor to Locke or Malebranche, but as these works show he is also a successor to Newton and Leibniz.

Editors and Affiliations

  • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

    Douglas M. Jesseph

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: De Motu and the Analyst

  • Book Subtitle: A Modern Edition, with Introductions and Commentary

  • Authors: George Berkeley

  • Editors: Douglas M. Jesseph

  • Series Title: The New Synthese Historical Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2592-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1520-9Published: 30 November 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5144-6Published: 23 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2592-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1879-8578

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-2585

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 232

  • Topics: Natural Language Processing (NLP), History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

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