Newton on God's Relation to Space and Time: The Cartesian Framework.
Beginning with Berkeley and Leibniz, philosophers have been puzzled by the close yet ambivalent association in Newton's ontology between God and absolute space and time. The 1962 publication of Newton's highly philosophical manuscript De Gravitatione has enriched our understanding of his subtle, som...
| Publicado en: | Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Vol. 93; no. 3; pp. 281 - 321 |
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De Gruyter
Sep2011
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