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January 1, 2023
Isaac Newton did more than any other early modern figure to revolutionize natural philosophy, but he was often wary of other aspects of philosophy. He had an especially vexed relationship with metaphysics. As recent scholarship has highlighted, he often de ...
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January 1, 2022
During the Scientific Revolution, philosophers wondered how best to understand space. Many debates revolved around the account advanced in Descartes’s Principles of Philosophy (1644), and this chapter treats it as a focal point. Descartes argued for a retu ...
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January 1, 2020
During the seventeenth century, a profound shift occurred: whereas space and its structure were not major subjects of philosophical analysis in the early part of the century, by 1800 they had become central to many debates. This shift was due to the influe ...
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January 1, 2018
When Émilie Du Châtelet published her magnum opus, Institutions de physique, in 1740, it was quickly met with excited reactions from mathematicians and philosophers throughout the Continent.1 Within a few short years, it was read and discussed by philosoph ...
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January 1, 2017
During the seventeenth century, there was something approaching consensus about the methodological parameters of natural philosophy. Throughout the century, a debate raged about whether the natural philosopher could legitimately employ geometric and arithm ...
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