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Episode: Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #214

Published on August 27, 2021

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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a scholar uh who's a professor at indiana now uh named domenico melli got his hands on a leibnitz manuscript called the ten tammon which was leibniz's attempt to produce an alternative to newton's mechanics

The speaker mentions a Leibniz manuscript called 'the ten tammon' (Tentamen Anagogicum) and its purpose.

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Micrographia

by Robert Hooke

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and he had written a book in fact called the micrographia which by the way he used a microscope to make the first depictions of things like a fly's eye the structure of you know it had a big influence

The speaker mentions Robert Hooke wrote a book called Micrographia and describes its contents.

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Newton: Philosophical Writings

by Isaac Newton

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there's two of them one's called the philosophical questions and the other is called the waste book

The speaker mentions one of Newton's student notebooks/manuscripts by its title.

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Opticks

by Isaac Newton

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in fact the second volume of newton's of the notes really on the great book that he published the optics which he published in 1704

The speaker mentions Newton's book 'Opticks' and its publication year.

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Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica

by Sir Isaac Newton

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what mellie found out was that leibniz reverse engineered the principia and cooked it backwards so that he could get the results he wanted

The speaker mentions Leibniz reverse-engineered Newton's Principia.

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The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide

by Isaac Newton, Julia Budenz

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there's two of them one's called the philosophical questions and the other is called the waste book

The speaker mentions one of Newton's student notebooks/manuscripts by its title.

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The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light

by Jed Z. Buchwald

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and i can give you all kinds of examples of that i once wrote a book on the origins of wave theory of light and that is one of the paradigmatic examples that tom used

The speaker (Jed Buchwald) mentions writing a book about the origins of the wave theory of light.

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn

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the thing that he's famous for the structure of scientific revolutions came out in 62

The speaker mentions the publication year of Thomas Kuhn's famous book.

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