NATS 1730 Lecture Notes - John Theophilus Desaguliers, Edmond Halley, Newton'S Laws Of Motion
Document Summary
Oct 31 2011: tradition" becomes equated with ignorance and other bad stuff try to modernize things through planning (a makeover) Newton: works at the mint, prosecutes counterfeiters, principia mathematica 1687, reduced/simplified natural laws, making 2 into 1 super and sub-lunary realms into just 1 realm, gravity, inertia. The further away an object gets, the weaker the gravitational pull. Gravity used to explain keplar"s discovery of elliptical orbits. Gravity rules all objects on and outside the earth, tides, etc. Later refuted this claim, said that the planets were not actually slowing down. Restated that god set up the universe and then walked away. Changes newton"s theist view to a deist view. Newtonianism: halley"s comet 1682 (edmund halley), 1758 return gives credence to newton"s prophecy of the comet"s return. Higher source of certainty than religion: john desaguliers (1683-1744) A middleman between high" scientific culture and low" artisans.
