| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Empiricism as a development of experimental natural philosophy / Stephen Gaukroger -- Constructing natural historical facts : Baconian natural history in Newton's first paper on light and colors / Dana Jalobeanu -- Vision, color, and method in Newton's Opticks / Philippe Hamou -- Locke's metaphysics and Newtonian metaphysics / Lisa Downing -- Locke and Newton on space and time and their sensible measures / Geoffrey Gorham and Edward Slowik -- Newtonian explanatory reduction and Hume's system of the sciences / Yoram Hazony -- Enlarging the bounds of moral philosophy : Newton's method and Hume's science of man / Tamás Demeter -- Living force at Leiden : De Volder, 's Gravesande, and the reception of Newtonianism / Tammy Nyden -- On the role of Newtonian analogies in eighteenth century life science : vitalism and provisionally inexplicable explicable devices / Charles Wolfe -- Closing the loop : testing Newtonian gravity, then and now / George E. Smith |
| Summary |
Papers exploring the nature and extent of Newton's relationship to a variety of empiricisms and empiricists |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 20, 2014) |
| Subject |
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 |
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Empiricism -- History -- 17th century
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Empiricism -- History -- 18th century
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Philosophy and science -- History -- 17th century
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Philosophy and science -- History -- 18th century
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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Empiricism
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Philosophy and science
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Biener, Zvi, editor.
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Schliesser, Eric, 1971- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780199373994 |
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019937399X |
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9780199337101 |
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0199337101 |
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