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Newton and empiricism / edited by Zvi Biener and Eric Schliesser.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
- Newton, Isaac.
- Empiricism--History--17th century.
- Empiricism.
- Empiricism--History--18th century.
- Philosophy and science--History--17th century.
- Philosophy and science.
- Philosophy and science--History--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A volume of original commissioned papers on the subject of Newton and empiricism. The chapters, contributed by a leading team of both established and younger international scholars, explore the nature and extent of Newton's relationship to a variety of empiricisms and empiricists.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-933710-1
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