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'External and Internal Relations', 'Principia Mathematica' and 'The Mengzi (Mencius)'
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
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Newton reclassified vertical motion as violent, and unconstrained horizontal motion as natural [Newton, by Harré]
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / b. Laws of motion
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Inertia rejects the Aristotelian idea of things having natural states, to which they return [Newton, by Alexander,P]
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1: Bodies rest, or move in straight lines, unless acted on by forces [Newton]
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Newton's Third Law implies the conservation of momentum [Newton, by Papineau]
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3: All actions of bodies have an equal and opposite reaction [Newton]
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2: Change of motion is proportional to the force [Newton]
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces
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Newton's idea of force acting over a long distance was very strange [Heisenberg on Newton]
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Newton introduced forces other than by contact [Newton, by Papineau]
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Newton's laws cover the effects of forces, but not their causes [Newton, by Papineau]
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Newton's forces were accused of being the scholastics' real qualities [Pasnau on Newton]
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I am studying the quantities and mathematics of forces, not their species or qualities [Newton]
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The aim is to discover forces from motions, and use forces to demonstrate other phenomena [Newton]
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / d. Gravity
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Newton showed that falling to earth and orbiting the sun are essentially the same [Newton, by Ellis]
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / c. Conservation of energy
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Early Newtonians could not formulate conservation of energy, having no concept of potential energy [Newton, by Papineau]
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