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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science

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How Old Was Newton and What Did He Produce?

Newton goes up to Cambridge, as it said, when he's 18 years old and 1660. And the so-called miraculous year, the Anas Mirabili's, where you get the development in the calculus and in optical discoveries, especially, is 1666. So he's already before that come to an awful lot of developments over the previous couple of years. Doesn't have much to do with the fact that he twice went home.

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