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

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How Data Fits Into the Scientific Method?

Newton reverse engineered a technique that had been developed by a man named Horox using certain laws of Kepler's to try and get around this thing. Newton then sort of reversed it and fit it together with his force calculations by way of an approximation. And was able to construct a model to make some predictions? It fit things backwards pretty well.

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