Tag: Isaac Newton
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Over Fedde’s neerhalen van Newton
Door Floris Cohen De redactie van ‘Schelpen en Steentjes’ heeft me gevraagd om op Fedde Benedictus’ boutade over Newton te reageren, ik denk omdat ik de auteur ben van een boek over Newton. En inderdaad, in de epiloog van Isaac Newton en het ware weten vind ik een heel reeksje van zwakke punten van Newton…
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The Father of Modern Science?
By Fedde Benedictus Both the originality and the intrinsic value of the work of Isaac Newton have been grossly overestimated. According to traditional history of science, Newton’s work (of which primarily his Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687) was the 17th century’s very pinnacle of the mechanistic worldview, and with that, it provided one of…
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A Rambo Trilogy in Early Modern Europe
An Interview with Professor Margaret Jacob, by Jorrit Smit On one of those sunny, warm, Californian fall afternoons, I meet professor Margaret Jacob in the Herbert Morris Seminar Room on the first floor of Royce Hall in the middle of the UCLA campus. The well-known early-modern scholar has just entertained a crowd of scholars, students…