Negotiating the Principia: the failure of Newton's arguments to persuade his readers, 1684-94
<p>When Isaac Newton’s 'Principia Mathematica' was published in the summer of 1687, it met with immediate acclaim. Through a close examination of contemporary reading notes, this thesis aims to establish the extent to which that acclaim was the result of his peers’ assent to the argu...
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2021
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