Certain Philosophical Questions: Newton`s Trinity Notebook

PART I. COMMENTARY
1 Description of the manuscript
2 Chronology of the Questiones
3 Newton's reading in earlier traditions and
some principal sources of the Questiones
3.1 The Greek and Latin notes
3.2 Some principal sources of the Questiones
1. Infinity, indivisibilism, and the void
1 The debt to Charleton
2 Least distance and the vacuum
3 Finite quantity and infinite divisibility:
an Epicurean argument
4 Extension, indivisible quantity, and the metric
of least distance
5 Indivisibles of time and motion
6 Mathematics and indivisibilism
7 The structure of the universe:
infinity and the void
2. The Cartesian influence
1 Newton's introduction to Descartes's
epistemology and ontology
2 Newton's reading in Descartes's Principia
3 Newton's response to Descartes's tidal theory
and the Meteorology
3. Newton on projectile motion and the void
1 Newton's main argument against antiperistasis
2 Newton's arguments against the theory
of impetus
3 Newton's arguments for natural gravity
4. Physiology and Hobbesian epistemology
1 The physicalist program
2 The Hobbesian influence
3 Newton's physiological investigations
5 . The origin of Newton's optical thought and its
connection with physiology
I Some optical observations
2 The boundary-color phenomenon and
the causes of color
3 Newton's notes from Boyle and a third essay
"Of Colours"
4 Newton on the ring phenomenon and the
influence of Hooke
6. Gravitation, attraction, and cohesion
1 A mechanical theory of gravitation of the
Questiones
2 Some later effluxial theories
3 Cohesion and adhesion
7 . Astronomy
1 The cometary notes
2 Miscellaneous astronomical notes
8. Things and souls
1 Things
2 Souls
3 Conclusion
PART II. TRANSCRIPTION AND EXPANSION
OF QUESTIONES QUÆDAM PHILOSOPHICA
Principles of the Transcription and Expansion
The Transcription and Expansion