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100			_aMcGuire, J E and Tamny, Martin
245			_aCertain Philosophical Questions: Newton`s Trinity Notebook
260			_aNew York _bCambridge University Press _c1985
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505			_aPART 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
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