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The Scientific Odyssey

Episode 3.28: The Triumph of Mechanics

Mar 26, 2017
01:02:52

Following the publication of Newton's Principia, the extended process of adoption began.  In this episode, we look at what barriers there were to Newton's ideas and how they were overcome.  We also look at the acceptance of heliocentricism and the reworking of Newton's mathematical formalism up through the work of Pierre-Simon Laplace.

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