Physical description; viii, 351 pages illustrations, facsimiles, portraits 27 cm. Notes; Expanded and revised version of papers and discussion comments originally presented at a conference on Newtonian studies, held at the University of Texas at Austin, Nov. 10-12, 1966. Cf. Preface and dust jacket. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; [1.] Newton’s life and society: The lad from Lincolnshire / Frank E. Manuel — Newton and his society / Christopher Hill — [2.] Newton’s scientific achievements: Newton and the theory of matter / A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall — Sources and strengths of Newton’s early mathematical thought / D.T. Whiteside — Uneasily fitful reflections on fits of easy transmission / Richard S. Westfall — Newton’s and Leibniz’ dynamics / Pierre Costabel (tran.