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

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New Stuff in the Space of New Theories

Newton was not able successfully to deal with the phenomenon of what happens when light goes past a knife's edge. He had cooked up something about it that no mathematical structure could be applied. Augustin Fresnel in France deployed advanced calculus forms of mathematics, which enabled observations to be melded with these computations.

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