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The methodological heritage of Newton /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Butts, Robert E. (Editor ), Davis, John Whitney, 1921- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Toronto] : University of Toronto Press, Ã1970.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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