Newton on Matter and Activity

✍ Scribed by Ernan McMullin

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 169
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Newton on Matter and Activity shows persuasively that while the Principia remains within the first two stages of inquiry (mathematical and physical) into nature, Newton spent the next forty years of his life making a philosophical analysis of matter, force, and transmission of force. Close attention is paid to methodological issues, especially Newton's move beyond inductivism and toward a reproductive theoretical schema of interpretation required to treat of attraction, hardness, and impenetrability." ―Cross Currents

✦ Table of Contents

Title
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE: The Universal Qualities of Matter
CHAPTER TWO: Is Matter Active?
CHAPTER THREE: Is Gravity an Essential Property of Matter?
CHAPTER FOUR: How Is Matter Moved?
CHAPTER FIVE: Epilogue: Matter and Activity in Later Natural Philosophy
Notes
References
Index