Abstract
“This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers I forbore to describe it in that Book [the Principia] least I should be accounted an extravagant freak & so prejudice my Readers against all those things weh were ye main designe of the Book.“ (Newton in a projected ‘Conclusion’ [c. 1693] to the Opticks, ULC. Add. 3970, f. 338r.)
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 184-222 |
Number of pages | 39 |
Journal | Centaurus |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1974 |
Externally published | Yes |