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My object here is, first, to review Hegel’s criticism of Newton’s ‘system of the world’ and then to examine critically the many aspects of it that seem to anticipate the approach to mathematical physics, which is today associated with the name of Einstein.
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Paolucci, H. (1984). Hegel and the Celestial Mechanics of Newton and Einstein. In: Cohen, R.S., Wartofsky, M.W. (eds) Hegel and the Sciences. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6233-0_5
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