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Mathematical and philosophical Newton

Niccoló Guicciardini: Isaac Newton on mathematical certainty and method. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009, 448pp, US$55.00, £40.95 HB Andrew Janiak: Newton as philosopher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 208pp, £47 HB

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  1. Guicciardini refers to a passage from De Methodis (ca. 1671) to be found in Whiteside 1967–1981, III, 278/279.

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Ducheyne, S. Mathematical and philosophical Newton. Metascience 20, 467–476 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9520-2

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