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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
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Is the Newton and the Apple Story True?
The role of fruit in the history of science has been vastly exaggerated. Newton until the early 1670s was not very interested in questions of motion. The idea that what goes on here in the neighborhood of the earth can be due to a direct relationship between the earth, let's say, and the moon is contrary to fundamental beliefs held by mechanical philosophers at the time.
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