Newton's experimental proofs as eliminative reasoning

DOI10.1023/A:1005430219735zbMATH Open0972.03522OpenAlexW1540959472MaRDI QIDQ1583739FDOQ1583739

Authors: 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

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zbMATH Keywords

theory of colorsinduction by eliminationNewton's first optical paper

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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