The Methodological Heritage of Newton /

The Methodological Heritage of Newton / / ed. by Robert Butts, John Davis.

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In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in Newton and his influence. His thought, like that of Aristotle and every other great thinker, underwent development which contemporary scholars are seeking to understand more clearly than did their predecessors, awed as they were by the overw...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Butts, Robert E.,
Davis, John W.,
Feyerabend, Paul K.,
Hanson, N. R.,
Laudan, L. L.,
Priestley, F. E. L.,
HerausgeberIn:
Butts, Robert,
Davis, John,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1970
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (182 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Hypotheses Fingo
  • III. The Clarke-Leibniz Controversy
  • IV. Berkeley, Newton, and Space1
  • V. Gravity and Intelligibility: Newton to Kant
  • VI. Thomas Reid and the Newtonian Turn of British Methodological Thought
  • VII. Whewell on Newton's Rules of Philosophizing
  • VIII. Classical Empiricism

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