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Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Newton, Isaac,--1642-1727.
Empiricism--History--17th century.
Empiricism--History--18th century.
Philosophy and science--History--17th century.
Philosophy and science--History--18th century.

Other Authors:

Biener, Zvi, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

This volume of original papers by a leading team of international scholars explores Isaac Newton's relation to a variety of empiricisms and empiricists. It includes studies of Newton's experimental methods in optics and their roots in Bacon and Boyle; Locke's and Hume's responses to Newton on the nature of matter, time, the structure of the sciences, and the limits of human inquiry. In addition it explores the use of Newtonian ideas in 18th-century pedagogy and the life sciences. Finally, it breaks new ground in analyzing the method of evidential reasoning heralded by the Principia, its nature, strength, and development in the subsequent three centuries of gravitational research. The volume will be of interest to historians of science and philosophy and philosophers interested in the nature of empiricism.

ISBN:

0199337098
9780199337095

OCLC:

(OCoLC)870290918

LCCN:

2013041299

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)