Title:	The Main Business of Natural Philosophy
Authors:	Steffen Ducheyne
Keywords:	Natural Philosophy
Issue Date:	2012
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	In the book at hand, Newton’s methodological ingenuity in natural philosophy is our main concern. The word ingenuity, notwithstanding, I shall not at all pursue a hagiographic narrative of Newton “the genius Lucasian Professor of Trinity College Cambridge” – which he surely was. Rather “The main Business of natural Philosophy”1: Isaac Newton’s Natural-philosophical Methodology starts from the following premise, which is nicely phrased by Scott Mandelbrote:Some past scholars have canvassed the story of Newton’s natural philosophy as a heroic story of a solitary genius who changed the world of science or as the victory of mathematics and empiricism over hypothetical philosophy. Instead, this monograph will situate Newton’s natural-philosophical methodology explicitly “in the world of [natural-philosophical] work.” I shall point not only to Newton’s successes, but also to the tensions and difficulties which he faced whilst trying to methodize natural philosophy
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/57780
ISBN:	978-94-007-2126-5
Appears in Collections:	Rural Development Studies

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