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Stewart, L. (2004). The Trouble with Newton in the Eighteenth Century. In: Force, J.E., Hutton, S. (eds) Newton and Newtonianism. International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives internationales d’histoire des idées, vol 188. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2238-7_11
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