The Main Business of Natural Philosophy

dc.contributor.author	Steffen Ducheyne
dc.date.accessioned	2019-03-26T06:32:03Z
dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-22T06:49:01Z
dc.date.available	2019-03-26T06:32:03Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-22T06:49:01Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.identifier.isbn	978-94-007-2126-5
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.215.13.25/handle/123456789/57780
dc.description	In the book at hand, Newton’s methodological ingenuity in natural philosophy is our main concern. The word ingenuity, notwithstanding, I shall not at all pursue a hagiographic narrative of Newton “the genius Lucasian Professor of Trinity College Cambridge” – which he surely was. Rather “The main Business of natural Philosophy”1: Isaac Newton’s Natural-philosophical Methodology starts from the following premise, which is nicely phrased by Scott Mandelbrote:Some past scholars have canvassed the story of Newton’s natural philosophy as a heroic story of a solitary genius who changed the world of science or as the victory of mathematics and empiricism over hypothetical philosophy. Instead, this monograph will situate Newton’s natural-philosophical methodology explicitly “in the world of [natural-philosophical] work.” I shall point not only to Newton’s successes, but also to the tensions and difficulties which he faced whilst trying to methodize natural philosophy
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Springer	en_US
dc.subject	Natural Philosophy	en_US
dc.title	The Main Business of Natural Philosophy	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US