Newton's experimental proofs as eliminative reasoning

DOI10.1023/A:1005430219735zbMath0972.03522OpenAlexW1540959472MaRDI QIDQ1583739

Athanassios Raftopoulos

Publication date: 1999

Published in: Erkenntnis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1005430219735

zbMATH Keywords

theory of colorsinduction by eliminationNewton's first optical paper

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Foundations of classical theories (including reverse mathematics) (03B30) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03)

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