Tag Archives: Descartes
Gravity: Manifest or Mechanical? Revisiting the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
[Note: In my seminar on “The Scientific Revolution” this semester, I assigned graduate students to write a blog post that, once revised by the class during a workshop, I would publish on my “Labyrinth of Nature” blog. This is the third piece from that seminar, by Master’s history student J.D. Wolflick.] In 1687, Isaac Newton published […]
