NEWTON AND DESCARTES: THEOLOGY AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
abstract Scholars have long recognized that Newton regarded Descartes as his principal philosophical interlocutor when composing the first edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687. The arguments in the Scholium on space and time, for instance, can profitably be interpreted as...
| Publicado en: | Southern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 414 - 436 |
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