Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant

Download or read book Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant written by Wolfgang Lefèvre and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This addresses the transformations of metaphysics as a discipline, the emergence of analytical mechanics, the diverging avenues of 18th-century Newtonianism, the body-mind problem, and philosophical principles of classification in the life sciences. An appendix contains a critical edition and first translation into English of Newton's scholia from David Gregory's Estate on the Propositions IV through IX Book III of his Principia.