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The methodological dimension of the Newtonian revolution

Steffen Ducheyne: The main business of natural philosophy: Isaac Newton’s natural-philosophical methodology. Dordrecht: Springer, 2012, 352pp, €118,99 HB

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Notes

  1. In private discussion with Ducheyne it has become clear to me that he really did not wish his position to be identified with De Gandt’s.

  2. Ducheyne is, in part, responding to the position that I have been advocating in (Schliesser 2011a, b).

  3. For a very different interpretation of these passages, see Schliesser (in press).

  4. I thank Steffen Ducheyne, Mary Domski, and Ori Belkind for their help.

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Schliesser, E. The methodological dimension of the Newtonian revolution. Metascience 22, 329–333 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-013-9787-1

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