Tag: Isaac Newton

  • On Newton’s World View

    Quotes from David Castillejo, Expanding Force in Newton’s Cosmos. These are quotes from Newton manuscripts. Alchemy “This rod & the male & female serpents joyned in the proportion of 3, 1, 2 compose the three headed Cerberus which keeps the gates of Hell. For being fermented & digested together they resolve & grow dayly more…

  • Edward Dolnick: The Clockwork Universe

    Quotes. Mathematics as Escape. Newton had Cracked the Code. Scientists and History. God-the-mathematician and Great Chain of Being. The Royal Society of London. Leeuwenhoek and sperm cells.

  • Every Event has a Cause as Metaphysics

    Quotes from Collingwood – An Essay on Metaphysics. Newton on Causation. Causation in History. Causation in Practical Natural Science.

  • God as a Cosmic Operator

    Quotes from Paul Feyerabend, The Tyranny of Science. History of discussions on stability of the the solar system. Newton believed that God must make corrections to keep stability.