{"title":"Bacon’s idea and Newton’s practice of induction","authors":"S. Ducheyne","doi":"10.21825/philosophica.82206","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, I pro vide a Baconian reading of Newton’s Principia. I argue that Newton scientific practice (especially in the Principia) was influenced by Bacon’s methodised idea of induction. My focus will be on Newton’s argument of universal gravitation.","PeriodicalId":36843,"journal":{"name":"Argumenta Philosophica","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Argumenta Philosophica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21825/philosophica.82206","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this essay, I pro vide a Baconian reading of Newton’s Principia. I argue that Newton scientific practice (especially in the Principia) was influenced by Bacon’s methodised idea of induction. My focus will be on Newton’s argument of universal gravitation.