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A New Age and an Old Tradition,ho proposed the clearest break with the past were very often traditionalists, while the men who wished to sever all connections with contemporary thought were often the least original. It is fitting that we should begin here with the astronomical revolution for two reasons: first because, as indicat

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The New Philosophy,y was the development of a new awareness of man’s potentiality, of his ability to understand the world around him, and of the possible results of that understanding. Perhaps most important of all the new currents of thought was the realization that the new natural philosophy of the sixteenth and sev

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Experimental Innovation,to be leading empiricists in science—commonly spoke indifferently of “the new learning” and “the new experimental philosophy” as if the two were identical (which they were not). By the 1660’s experimental investigation often assumed the name “Baconian”; certainly Bacon had stressed, perhaps overstre

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The Newtonian Triumph,r the developments of his predecessors and added thereto his own discoveries to produce his monumental ., seemed to have solved the scientific problems of the age. This was especially so since Newton contributed equally to all the outstanding physical problems of his time-optics, mechanics, cosmolog