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Newton and empiricism / edited by Zvi Biener and Eric Schliesser.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Biener, Zvi, editor.
Schliesser, Eric, 1971- editor.
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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