
#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
Lex Fridman Podcast
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He's dutch for his work in optics
At the end of the eighteenth century, when somebody went back to this, you'd do what you just i told you to do with the ruler. Iu, makes a lot of measurements and average results. We have hoygin's notes. A number of years ago, i went through those things, because in this optical theory that he had, there are four numbers that you've got to be able to get good numbers on for predicting other things. That was the general procedure at the time.
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