Newton’s action at a distance – Different views

Sfetcu, Nicolae Newton’s action at a distance – Different views., 2019 [Preprint]

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English abstract

Different authors have attempted to clarify the aspects of remote action and God's involvement on the basis of textual investigations, mainly from the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Newton's correspondence with Richard Bentley (1692/93), and Queries that Newton introduced at the end of the Opticks book in the first three editions (between 1704 and 1721).

Item type: Preprint
Keywords: Isaac Newton, action at a distance, gravity
Subjects: G. Industry, profession and education. > GZ. None of these, but in this section.
Depositing user: Nicolae Sfetcu
Date deposited: 20 Jun 2023 08:50
Last modified: 20 Jun 2023 08:50
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/44405

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Newton, Isaac. 1952. Opticks, Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light. Courier Corporation.

———. 1999. The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by I. Bernard Cohen, Anne Whitman, and Julia Budenz. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Schliesser, Eric. 2011. “Newton’s Substance Monism, Distant Action, and the Nature of Newton’s Empiricism: Discussion of H. Kochiras ‘Gravity and Newton’s Substance Counting Problem.’” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 42 (1): 160–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.11.004


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