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Aiton, Eric, 1972, The Vortex Theory of Planetary Motions, New York: American Elsevier. (Scholar)
D’Alembert, Jean Le Rond, 1743, Traité de dynamique, Paris. (Scholar)
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Anstey, Peter, 2011, John Locke and Natural Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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Bentley, Richard, 1756, Four Letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Doctor Bentley concerning Some Arguments in Proof of a Deity, London. (Scholar)
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Berkeley, George, 1992, De Motu and the Analyst, Douglas Jesseph (ed. and trans.), Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)
Bertoloni Meli, Domenico, 1993, Equivalence and Priority: Newton vs. Leibniz, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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Bricker, Philip and R.I.G. Hughes (ed.), 1990, Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
Brucker, Johann Jacob, 1742–44, Historica Critica Philosophiae, five volumes, Leipzig. (Scholar)
Buchwald, Jed and I. B. Cohen (ed.), 2001, Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
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Clarke, Samuel, and G.W. Leibniz, 1717, A collection of papers, which passed between the late learned Mr. Leibnitz and Dr. Clarke, in the years of 1715 and 1716, London: James Knapton. [Clarke and Leibniz 1717 available online] (Scholar)
Cohen, I.B., 1956, Franklin and Newton: an inquiry into speculative Newtonian experimental science and Franklin’s work in electricity as an example thereof, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. (Scholar)
–––, 1966, “Newton’s Conception of Hypotheses”, Physis: rivista internazionale di storia della scienza, 8: 163–84. (Scholar)
–––, 1971, Introduction to Newton’s “Principia”, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1980, The Newtonian Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Cohen, I.B. and Alexandre Koyré, 1962, “Newton and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence”, Archives internationales d’histoire des sciences, 15: 63–126. (Scholar)
Cohen, I.B. and George E. Smith (ed.), 2002, The Cambridge Companion to Newton, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
DePierris, Graciela 2012, “Newton, Locke and Hume”, in Janiak and Schliesser 2012. (Scholar)
Descartes, René, 1644/1982, Principia Philosphiae, in Oeuvres de Descartes, C. Adam and P. Tannery (ed.), Volume VIII-1, Paris: Vrin. (Scholar)
DiSalle, Robert, 2006, Understanding space-time, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter, 1991, The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton’s Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter and Margaret Jacob, 1995, Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press. (Scholar)
Domski, Mary, 2010, “Newton’s empiricism and metaphysics”, Philosophy Compass, 5: 525–534. (Scholar)
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Downing, Lisa, 1997, “Locke’s Newtonianism and Lockean Newtonianism”, Perspectives on Science, 5: 285–414. (Scholar)
–––, 2005, “Berkeley’s natural philosophy and philosophy of science”, in The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley, Ken Winkler (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 230–265. (Scholar)
Ducheyne, Steffen 2011, “Newton on action at a distance and the cause of gravity”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 42: 154–159. (Scholar)
–––, 2012, The Main Business of Natural Philosophy, Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
Euler, Leonard, 1748, “Réflections sur l’Espace et le Temps”, Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences de Berlin, 4: 324–333; reprinted in Leonhardi Euleri Opera Omnia, Ferdinand Rudio et al. (ed), Leipzig, vol. 2.
French, Roger and Andrew Cunningham, 1996, Before science: the invention of the friars’ natural philosophy, Brookfield: Scholar’s Press. (Scholar)
Friedman, Michael, 1990, “Kant and Newton: Why Gravity is Essential to Matter”, in Bricker and Hughes 1990: 185–202. (Scholar)
–––, 1992, Kant and the Exact Sciences, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
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Gabbey, Alan, 1982, “Philosophia Cartesiana Triumphata: Henry More (1646–1671)”, in T. Lennon, et al., (ed.), Problems of Cartesianism, Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 171–250. (Scholar)
Garber, Daniel, 2012, “Leibniz, Newton and force”, in Janiak and Schliesser 2012: 33–47. (Scholar)
Garber, Daniel and Sophie Roux (ed.), 2013, The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy, Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
Gascoigne, John, 1985, Cambridge in the age of the Enlightenment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Gaukroger, Stephen, 2002, Descartes’ System of Natural Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Grant, Edward, 2007, A History of Natural Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Guicciardini, Niccòlo, 2015, “Editing Newton in Geneva and Rome: the edited edition of the Principia by Calendrini, Le Seur and Jacquier”, Annals of Science, 72: 337–80. (Scholar)
Harper, William, 2011, Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method: Turning Date into Evidence About Gravity and Cosmology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Harrison, John, 1978, The Library of Isaac Newton, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Hatfield, Gary, 1996, “Was the Scientific Revolution a Revolution in Science?” in Tradition, Transmission, Transformation, F.J. Ragep and S. Ragep (ed.), Leiden: E.J. Brill, pp. 489–525. (Scholar)
Heidegger, Martin, 1962, Die Frage nach dem Ding, Tübingen. (Scholar)
Heilbron, John, 1982, Elements of Early Modern Physics, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
Henry, John, 1994, “ ‘Pray do not ascribe that notion to me’: God and Newton’s gravity”, in The books of nature and scripture, J. Force & R. Popkin (ed.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 123–147.
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–––, 2014, “Newton and action at a distance between bodies: a response to Andrew Janiak’s ‘Three concepts of cause in Newton’”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 47: 91–97. (Scholar)
Hesse, Mary, 1961, Forces and Fields: The Concept of Action at a Distance in the History of Physics, London: Nelson. (Scholar)
Hooke, Robert, 1665, Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses, with observations and inquiries thereupon, London: Royal Society. (Scholar)
Hume, David, 1854 [1754–61], The History of England from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James the Second, 1688, New York: Harper & Brothers. (Scholar)
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Huygens, Christiaan, 1888–1950, Oeuvres complètes de Christiaan Huygens, Johan Adriaan Vollgraff (ed.), The Hague: Nijhoff. (Scholar)
Janiak, Andrew, 2008, Newton as philosopher, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2010, “Substance and Action in Newton and Descartes”, The Monist, 93: 657–77. (Scholar)
–––, 2013, “Three concepts of cause in Newton”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 44: 396–407. (Scholar)
–––, 2015, Newton, London: Wiley-Blackwell. (Scholar)
Janiak, Andrew and Eric Schliesser (ed.), 2012, Interpreting Newton: critical essays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Kant, Immanuel, 1747/2012, Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces , trans. by Jeffrey Edwards and Martin Schoenfeld, in Eric Watkins, ed., Natural Science, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–155. (Scholar)
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Koyré, Alexandre, 1957, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1965, Newtonian Studies, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
Kuhn, Thomas, 1996, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, third edition. (Scholar)
Leibniz, G.W., 1849, Mathematische Schriften, C. Gerhardt (ed.), Berlin: Asher. (Scholar)
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Lewis, Genevieve (ed), 1953, Descartes: Correspondance avec Arnauld et Morus, texte Latin et traduction, Paris: Librairie philosophique Vrin. (Scholar)
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–––, 1985, Tradition and innovation: Newton’s metaphysics of nature, Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)
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McMullin, Ernan, 1978, Newton on Matter and Activity, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. (Scholar)
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