Newton's experimental proofs as eliminative reasoning

DOI10.1023/A:1005430219735MaRDI QIDQ1583739zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

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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