Concerning Some Philosophical Reasons for the Recourse to Mathematics in the Study of Physical Phenomena in the Thought of Newton and Leibniz

Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 9:57-65 (2002)
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Considering the physics of Newton and of Leibniz, we are confronted with two different ways of explaining physical phenomena and with different kinds of concepts. Whether we speak about space, time, force, matter, vortices etc., their conceptions diverge

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10.1007/978-94-017-1785-4_5

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