Newton on Matter and Activity
Author(s)
Ernan McMullin
Ernan McMullin
Newton on Matter and Activity shows persuasively that while the Principia remains within the first two stages of inquiry (mathematical and physical) into nature, Newton spent the next forty years of his life making a philosophical analysis of matter, force, and transmission of force. Close attention is paid to methodological issues, especially Newton's move beyond inductivism and toward a reproductive theoretical schema of interpretation required to treat of attraction, hardness, and impenetrability. --Cross Currents
Keywords
Philosophy & Social Aspects, History, 18th Century, Social Sciences -> Philosophy -> Science, Physical & Earth Sciences -> Science -> History, Social Sciences -> History -> Modern History
Philosophy & Social Aspects, History, 18th Century, Social Sciences -> Philosophy -> Science, Physical & Earth Sciences -> Science -> History, Social Sciences -> History -> Modern History
| Name in long format: | Dante's Commedia Theology as Poetry |
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| ISBN-10: | 0268160147 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780268160142 |
| Book pages: | 640 |
| Book language: | English |
| Edition: | 4 |
| Binding: | ePub |
| Publisher: | University of Notre Dame Press |
| Dimensions: | eBook |
