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oapen-20.500.12657-502012021-07-26T13:18:28Z Newton's Third Rule and the Experimental Argument for Universal Gravity Domski, Mary Descartes early modern experimental philosophy hypothetical philosophy Isaac Newton Mary Domski one-set reading Principia third rule two-set reading universal gravity universal qualities bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPC History of Western philosophy::HPCF Western philosophy, from c 1900 - bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science This book provides a reading of Newton’s argument for universal gravity that is focused on the evidence-based, "experimental" reasoning that Newton associates with his program of experimental philosophy. It highlights the richness and complexity of the Principia and also draws important lessons about how to situate Newton in his natural philosophical context. The book has two primary objectives. First, it defends a novel interpretation of the third of Newton’s four Rules for the Study of Natural Philosophy – what the author terms the Two-Set Reading of Rule 3. Second, it argues that this novel interpretation of Rule 3 sheds additional light on the differences between Newton’s experimental philosophy and Descartes’s "hypothetical philosophy," and that it also illuminates how the practice of experimental philosophy allowed Newton to make a universal force of gravity the centerpiece of his explanation of the system of the world. Newton’s Third Rule and the Experimental Argument for Universal Gravity will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on Newton’s natural philosophy, early modern philosophy, and the history of science. 2021-07-26T12:26:58Z 2021-07-26T12:26:58Z 2022 book ONIX_20210726_9781000449419_9 9781000449419 9781032020365 9781003184256 9781032026220 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50201 eng Routledge Focus on Philosophy application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000449419.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003184256 10.4324/9781003184256 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781000449419 9781032020365 9781003184256 9781032026220 Routledge 116 open access
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This book provides a reading of Newton’s argument for universal gravity that is focused on the evidence-based, "experimental" reasoning that Newton associates with his program of experimental philosophy. It highlights the richness and complexity of the Principia and also draws important lessons about how to situate Newton in his natural philosophical context. The book has two primary objectives. First, it defends a novel interpretation of the third of Newton’s four Rules for the Study of Natural Philosophy – what the author terms the Two-Set Reading of Rule 3. Second, it argues that this novel interpretation of Rule 3 sheds additional light on the differences between Newton’s experimental philosophy and Descartes’s "hypothetical philosophy," and that it also illuminates how the practice of experimental philosophy allowed Newton to make a universal force of gravity the centerpiece of his explanation of the system of the world. Newton’s Third Rule and the Experimental Argument for Universal Gravity will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on Newton’s natural philosophy, early modern philosophy, and the history of science.
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