Titlebook: Newton’s Physics and the Conceptual Structure of the Scientific Revolution; Zev Bechler Book 1991 Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991 Galileo

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Aristotelian and Platonic Conceptions of Explanationientific revolution of the 17th century was the replacement of the aristotelian concept of science by a platonic one, this will be meant in a sense different from the traditional theses presented by Cassirer and Koyré, which sound the same. My thesis will be that they missed both the essence of the

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Introductionence. This is why Copernicus is the real initiator of the revolution: He is a platonist who sees the aim of astronomy as the discovery of hidden reality, a real saving of the phaenomena, yet declares that he has also discovered a principle of certainty, according to which his theory of planetary ord

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The Copernican Harmonyturning existing astronomy into a harmonic system, (b) this harmony consists in a rigidity towards changes in some parameters in the system, (c) these parameters are the “order and magnitude of the spheres,” (d) and lastly, by implication, all this was lacking in the existing astronomy. It is theref

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Descartes’ Informative Logics opinion one of the crucial causes for the failure of traditional philosophy and science was logical rigour as epitomised in the Aristotelian theory of the syllogism. Descartes was quite clear that deductive syllogistic logic was worthless as a tool for scientific research:. (HR, I:33)

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Newton’s Logic of Space and Timeed on the presupposition of the actuality of the infinite series. I shall argue now that a parallel step is taken in his physics in regard to the existence of its fundamental entities, namely, space, time, force and its laws of motion. All of these are potential things, yet their full actuality is t

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Modern Newtonian Historiography and the Puzzle of Newton’s Absolute Spacesequently motion. My concern in this chapter will be mainly the nature of a special kind of motion, i.e., the inertial, since it is at this point that the informative character of Newton’s physics is most strikingly exhibited. I’ll argue that there is no motion (or rest) in his physics which is unca

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