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3 days ago · Whig. Signature. Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. [7] He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed.
1 day ago · This paper analyzes the specific shift in the meaning of “civilization” that took place in texts and documents of early American philosophical naturalism. Particularly, it will focus on the specific role that naturalization plays in the edification of a newly secularized, science-oriented, and democratic society, as well as of a naturalized ...
5 days ago · Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687) was one of the most important single works in the history of modern science.
- Although Isaac Newton is well known for his discoveries in optics (white light composition) and mathematics (calculus), it is his formulation of th...
- After interrupted attendance at the grammar school in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, Isaac Newton finally settled down to prepare for university,...
- Isaac Newton was born to a widowed mother (his father died three months prior) and was not expected to survive, being tiny and weak. Shortly therea...
- Isaac Newton is widely known for his published work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), commonly known as the Principia. His laws...
4 days ago · Charles Darwin, the renowned British naturalist and father of evolutionary theory, revolutionized our understanding of life on Earth through his groundbreaking work "On the Origin of Species," forever changing how we view ourselves and all living organisms.
- Adrian J. Desmond
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the foundation upon which modern evolutionary theory is built. The theory was outlined...
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution had three main components: that variation occurred randomly among members of a species; that an individual’s t...
- Growing up, Charles Darwin was always attracted to the sciences. In 1825 his father sent him to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. Ther...
- Charles Darwin was born in England to a well-to-do family in 1809. His father was a doctor, and his mother—who died when he was only eight years ol...
- Charles Darwin’s theories hugely impacted scientific thought. But his ideas also affected the realms of politics, economics, and literature. More i...
2 days ago · Philosophy ( φιλοσοφία, 'love of wisdom', in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions.
2 days ago · In Aristotle's terminology, "natural philosophy" is a branch of philosophy examining the phenomena of the natural world, and includes fields that would be regarded today as physics, biology and other natural sciences. Aristotle's work encompassed virtually all facets of intellectual inquiry.
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4 days ago · Margaret Schabas has forcefully reminded us of the central role of natural philosophy and natural history in classical political economy. (4) Schabas suggests that Adam Smith and his successors modeled the order of market exchange on Newtonian gravitation and Linnaean food chains.
