Tag: René Descartes
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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…