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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...

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Published in:Southern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 414 - 436
Main Author: JANIAK, ANDREW
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2012
Subjects:
Physics
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Book)
Motion
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Space theology
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