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

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The Principia Mathematical as Is a Calculus

The Principia is divided into three books. Book one contains his version of the laws of motion and the application of those laws to figure out when a body moves in certain curves. The fullest sets of techniques are really only developed about 30 or 40 years after Newton's death by French mathematicians like Laplace.

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