Tag: Isaac Newton
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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…
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Mathematics as Escape
Quotes from Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World, Chapter Twenty-One “Shuddering Before the Beautiful” ‘For the mathematically minded, the notion of glimpsing God’s plan has always exerted a hypnotic pull. The seduction is twofold. On the one hand, delving into the world’s mathematical secrets…
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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.
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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.