Responses to Newton’s Mathematical-Experimental Paradigm in 18th-Century Philosophy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
focus the widely divergent responses to the mathematical-experimental paradigm (henceforth: ‘MEP’)
elaborated in Newton’s Principia mathematica (1687) and Opticks (1704) on the part of 18th-century
philosophers. While we do not deny the enormous impact of the MEP, we challenge the prevailing assumption
that it ...