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

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How Much Rigidity Was There?

"I don't even know how rigorous the mathematics was at that point," he says. "There are elements of what turned into the calculus that predate Newton, but how much rigor was there?" He adds: "No scientific method, not really... Appreciation of data is a significant question as to what you do with data"

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