God and natural philosophy: The late middle ages and Sir Isaac Newton

Early Science and Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 279-298

  Grant, Edward ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34548837036     PISSN: 13837427     EISSN: 15733823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157338200X00236     Document Type: Article

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10. Cunningham, "How the Principia Got Its Name," 381.
11. I. Bernard Cohen, Introduction to Newton's ̀Principia' (Cambridge, 1971), 155.
12. The translation is from Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural, Philosophy and His System of the World, translated into English by Andrew Motte in 1729. The translations revised, and supplied with an historical and explanatory appendix, by Florian Cajori (Berkeley, 1947), 543-547
13. Richard S. Westfall, Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (Cambridge, 1980), 744,
14. General Scholium, p. 546 (Cajori translation).
15. General Scholium, p. 547 (Cajori translation).
16. Westfall, Never at Rest, 748.
17. Cited in my article in the North Festschrift, p. 245.
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19. Sidney Ross, "Scientist: the story of a word," Annals of Sciencee 18 (1962), 65-85.
20. Cohen cites the passage from H. W. Turnbull, ed., The Correspondence of Isaac. Newton, 2: 1676-87 (Cambridge, 1960), 437.
21. Cunningham, "How the Principla Got Its Name," 378.
22. W. D.Ross, Aristotle, Fifth edition revised (London: Methuen & Co., 1949), p.20.
23. Cunningham, "How the Princiyia Got Its Name," 381-382.
24. Quoted from Stanley Guralnick, Science and the Ante-Rellum American College (Philadelphia, 1975), Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 109, p. 60.
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