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Hegel’s Treatment of Universal Gravitation

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Hegel and Newtonianism

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In the opening passages of his introduction to the critical edition of Newton’s Principia, Cohen praises the work as, “one of the glories of the human intellect, a founding document of our modern exact science”. If for no other reason, the assessment would appear to be justified on account of the work’s having introduced into natural philosophy a wholly fundamental concept — that of the universal gravitation of all material bodies. The concept is formulated in its most concise form in proposition seven of book three: “there is a power of gravity pertaining to all bodies, proportional to the several quantities of matter which they contain”.1

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Ihmig, KN. (1993). Hegel’s Treatment of Universal Gravitation. In: Petry, M.J. (eds) Hegel and Newtonianism. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 136. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1662-6_25

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