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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
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Newton was convinced that the only way to gain real knowledge of nature is through carefully constructed devices. Havalius, a rather wealthy man in Dunsig had become fascinated with the telescope. He built a large observatory on the top of his brewery and published a whole new catalog of where the stars are. But Hook read this and he said, wait a minute, you didn't use a telescope here of any kind,. because what's the point? Unless you do something to the telescope, all you see are dots with stars. You just use your eyes, your eyes can't be that good. It's impossible. So Newton put a device in the telescope that let him measure distances
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