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dc.contributor.authorSteffen Ducheyne-
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-26T06:32:03Z-
dc.date.available2019-03-26T06:32:03Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.isbn978-94-007-2126-5-
dc.identifier.urihttp://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/57780-
dc.descriptionIn 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-
dc.languageenen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.subjectNatural Philosophyen_US
dc.titleThe Main Business of Natural Philosophyen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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