Certain Philosophical Questions: Newton's Trinity Notebook

Abstract

Preface Part I. Commentary: Introduction 1. Infinity, indivisibilism, and the void 2. The Cartesian influence 3. Newton on projectile motion and the void 4. Physiology and Hobbesian epistemology 5. The origin of Newton's optical thought and its connection with physiology 6. Gravitation, attraction, and cohesion 7. Astronomy 8. Things and souls Part II. Transcription and Expansion of Questiones Quaedam Philosophicae: Principles of the transcription and expansion The transcription and expansion Appendix Glossary Symbols and shorthand devices Selected bibliography Index.