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- catalog alternative "Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton".
- catalog contributor b1208101.
- catalog contributor b1208102.
- catalog created "1954.".
- catalog date "1954".
- catalog date "1954.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1954.".
- catalog description "Historical problem suggested by nature of modern thought -- Metaphysical foundations of modern science key to problem -- Problem of new astronomy -- Metaphysical bearings of pre-Copernican progress in mathematics -- Ultimate implications of Copernicus' step-revival of Pythagoreans -- Kepler's early acceptance of new world-scheme -- first formulation of new metaphysics-causality, quantity, primary, secondary qualities -- Science of local motion -- Nature as mathematical order-Galileo's method -- Subjectivity of secondary qualities -- Motion, space, time -- Nature of causality-god and physical world-positivism -- Mathematics as key to knowledge -- Geometrical conception of physical universe -- Res extensa, res cogitans -- Problem of mind and body -- Hobbes' attack on Cartesian dualism -- Treatment of secondary qualities, causality -- More's notion of extension as category of spirit -- Spirit of nature -- Space as divine presence -- Barrow's philosophy of method, space, time -- Non-mathematical scientific current -- Boyle's importance as scientist and philosopher -- Acceptance and defense of mechanical world-view -- Value of qualitative and teleological explanations -- Insistence on reality of secondary qualities-conception of man -- Pessimistic view of human knowledge-positivism -- Bole's philosophy of ether -- God's relation to mechanical world -- Summary of pre-Newtonian development -- Newton's method -- Mathematical aspect -- Empirical aspect -- Attack on hypotheses -- Newton's union of mathematics and experiment -- Doctrine of positivism -- Newton's general conception of world, and man's relation to it -- Space, time, mass -- Mass -- Space, time -- Criticism of Newton's philosophy of space, time -- Newton's conception of ether -- Function of ether -- Newton's early speculations -- Development of a more settled theory -- God-creator, preserver of order of world -- Newton as theologian -- God's present duties in cosmic economy -- His.".
- catalog description "Issued also as thesis, Columbia University, under title: The metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton,".
- catalog extent "352 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Metaphysical foundations of modern physical science.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Metaphysical foundations of modern physical science.".
- catalog isPartOf "Doubleday anchor books, A41".
- catalog issued "1954".
- catalog issued "1954.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday,".
- catalog relation "Metaphysical foundations of modern physical science.".
- catalog subject "B67 .B8 1954".
- catalog subject "Metaphysics History.".
- catalog subject "Metaphysics.".
- catalog subject "Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.".
- catalog subject "Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.".
- catalog subject "Physical sciences Philosophy History.".
- catalog subject "Physics.".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Science.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Historical problem suggested by nature of modern thought -- Metaphysical foundations of modern science key to problem -- Problem of new astronomy -- Metaphysical bearings of pre-Copernican progress in mathematics -- Ultimate implications of Copernicus' step-revival of Pythagoreans -- Kepler's early acceptance of new world-scheme -- first formulation of new metaphysics-causality, quantity, primary, secondary qualities -- Science of local motion -- Nature as mathematical order-Galileo's method -- Subjectivity of secondary qualities -- Motion, space, time -- Nature of causality-god and physical world-positivism -- Mathematics as key to knowledge -- Geometrical conception of physical universe -- Res extensa, res cogitans -- Problem of mind and body -- Hobbes' attack on Cartesian dualism -- Treatment of secondary qualities, causality -- More's notion of extension as category of spirit -- Spirit of nature -- Space as divine presence -- Barrow's philosophy of method, space, time -- Non-mathematical scientific current -- Boyle's importance as scientist and philosopher -- Acceptance and defense of mechanical world-view -- Value of qualitative and teleological explanations -- Insistence on reality of secondary qualities-conception of man -- Pessimistic view of human knowledge-positivism -- Bole's philosophy of ether -- God's relation to mechanical world -- Summary of pre-Newtonian development -- Newton's method -- Mathematical aspect -- Empirical aspect -- Attack on hypotheses -- Newton's union of mathematics and experiment -- Doctrine of positivism -- Newton's general conception of world, and man's relation to it -- Space, time, mass -- Mass -- Space, time -- Criticism of Newton's philosophy of space, time -- Newton's conception of ether -- Function of ether -- Newton's early speculations -- Development of a more settled theory -- God-creator, preserver of order of world -- Newton as theologian -- God's present duties in cosmic economy -- His.".
- catalog title "Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton".
- catalog title "The metaphysical foundations of modern physical science.".
- catalog type "text".