Book contents
- Interpreting Newton
- Interpreting Newton
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Newton and his contemporaries
- 1 Newton's law-constitutive approach to bodies
- 2 Leibniz, Newton and force
- 3 Locke's qualified embrace of Newton'sPrincipia
- 4 What geometry postulates
- Part II Philosophical themes in Newton
- Part III The reception of Newton
- References
- Index
4 - What geometry postulates
Newton and Barrow on the relationship of mathematics to nature
from Part I - Newton and his contemporaries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
- Interpreting Newton
- Interpreting Newton
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Newton and his contemporaries
- 1 Newton's law-constitutive approach to bodies
- 2 Leibniz, Newton and force
- 3 Locke's qualified embrace of Newton'sPrincipia
- 4 What geometry postulates
- Part II Philosophical themes in Newton
- Part III The reception of Newton
- References
- Index
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- Interpreting NewtonCritical Essays, pp. 69 - 102Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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