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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is It a Powerful Work in Itself?

The Optics, which he published in 1704, has just been finished with full annotations and analysis by the greatest analyst of Newton's optics. Is it a powerful work in itself? You can see this guy coming to grips with and pushing through and working his way around complicated and difficult issues. And we can see him succeeding and failing at the same time.

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