Newtonians

"Newtonians" and the "Cartesians about the earth's precise shape and circumference.

The Moderate Voice 2009

"Newtonians" and the "Cartesians about the earth's precise shape and circumference.

The Moderate Voice 2009

"Newtonians" and the "Cartesians about the earth's precise shape and circumference.

The Moderate Voice 2009

I worked on govt reorg issues for GAO in the 90s, when the Newtonians were obsessing over closing “wasteful” agencies as a trophy they could bag.

Matthew Yglesias » At The Department of Forgotten Cabinet Secretaries 2009

But while Galileo moved to shift an existing paradigm, the denialists are resisting a new shift that has already taken place, like so many fossilized Newtonians grumbling about Einstein and sneering sceptically about "curved space" and "time compression."

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

In the beginning of the Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant frames his view by contrasting it with the failures of the Leibnizians and the Newtonians to conceive of space appropriately:

Kant's Views on Space and Time Janiak, Andrew 2009

His alternative offered in the same text of a life devoted to simple tasks with clear, tangible, and most importantly useful ends was also derived from the utilitarian discourse that Newtonians also used to justify their science.

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

Voltaire also came to know the other Newtonians in Clarke's circle, and since he became proficient enough in English to write letters and even fiction in this language, it is very likely that he immersed himself in their writings as well.

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

The objection, though formidable, was not new; Bayle in the Dictionnaire (entry “Leucippus,” remark G) had chided the Newtonians for identifying space with divine immensity in order to solve the ontological problem created by the positing of an infinite space, and had compared this solution to Malebranche's placement of “intelligible extension” in God, a move which, he claimed, Arnauld had shown to lead to the destruction of divine simplicity.

Samuel Clarke Vailati, Ezio 2009

There is no doubt that the debate between the Leibnizians and the Newtonians concerning the status of space and time forms part of the essential background to Kant's views throughout his career.

Kant's Views on Space and Time Janiak, Andrew 2009