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Introduction | |
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The Historical Problem Suggested by the Nature of Modern Thought | |
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science the Key to This Problem | |
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Copernicus and Kepler | |
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The Problem of the New Astronomy | |
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Metaphysical Bearings of the Pre-Copernican Progress in Mathematics | |
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Ultimate Implications of Copernicus' Step--Revival of Pythagoreanism | |
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Kepler's Early Acceptance of the New World-Scheme | |
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First Formulation of the New Metaphysics--Causality, Quantity, Primary and Secondary Qualities | |
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Galileo | |
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The Science of "Local Motion" | |
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Nature as Mathematical Order--Galileo's Method | |
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The Subjectivity of Secondary Qualities | |
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Motion, Space, and Time | |
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The Nature of Causality--God and the Physical World--Positivism | |
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Descartes | |
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Mathematics as the Key to Knowledge | |
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Geometrical Conception of the Physical Universe | |
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"Res extensa" and "Res cogitans" | |
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The Problem of Mind and Body | |
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Seventeenth-Century English Philosophy | |
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Hobbes' Attack on the Cartesian Dualism | |
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Treatment of Secondary Qualities and Causality | |
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More's Notion of Extension as a Category of Spirit | |
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The "Spirit of Nature" | |
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Space as the Divine Presence | |
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Barrow's Philosophy of Method, Space, and Time | |
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Gilbert and Boyle | |
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The Non-Mathematical Scientific Current | |
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Boyle's Importance as Scientist and Philosopher | |
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Acceptance and Defence of the Mechanical World-View | |
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Value of Qualitative and Teleological Explanations | |
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Insistence on Reality of Secondary Qualities--Conception of Man | |
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Pessimistic View of Human Knowledge--Positivism | |
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Boyle's Philosophy of the Ether | |
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God's Relation to the Mechanical World | |
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Summary of the Pre-Newtonian Development | |
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The Metaphysics of Newton | |
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Newton's Method | |
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The Mathematical Aspect | |
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The Empirical Aspect | |
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Attack on "Hypotheses" | |
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Newton's Union of Mathematics and Experiment | |
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The Doctrine of Positivism | |
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Newton's General Conception of the World, and of Man's Relation to It | |
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Space, Time, and Mass | |
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Mass | |
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Space and Time | |
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Criticism of Newton's Philosophy of Space and Time | |
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Newton's Conception of the Ether | |
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The Function of the Ether | |
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Newton's Early Speculations | |
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Development of a More Settled Theory | |
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God--Creator and Preserver of the Order of the World | |
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Newton as Theologian | |
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God's Present Duties in the Cosmic Economy | |
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The Historical Relations of Newton's Theism | |
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Conclusion | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |