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Newton's Third Rule and the Experimental Argument for Universal Gravity.

Domski's central argument is that Newton does not think that gravity passes, or needs to pass, the invariance criterion to be considered a universal quality. According to Domski's interpretation, Newton is carrying out a large-scale inductive argument, claiming that if gravity is present in all obse...

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Published in:HOPOS: The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 510 - 516
Main Author: Belkind, Ori
Format: Article
Published: University of Chicago Press Fall2022
Subjects:
Gravity
Newton's law of gravitation
Newton-Raphson method
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