Existence, Actuality and Necessity: Newton on Space and Time

By yedivine arm: God and substance inDe gravitatione

“…As the text implies, existing in place and time is what counts as actually existing, in contrast, for example, to existing in the manner of an abstract entity or as a number. This contention is supported by Newton's use of the phrase ‘rerum natura’ … (McGuire (1978), 465)…”

“…1.Works discussing the manuscript include: Hall & Hall (1962, introduction to part II); McGuire (1978); Bennett & Remnant (1978); Gabbey (2002); Stein (2002); Benjamin Hill (2003); Dempsey (2006); Janiak (2008); Kochiras (2009); Slowik (2009); Henry (2011); Biener & Smeenk (2011); Brading (2011); Gorham (2011a, 2011b). …”

A Potencialidade Da Epistemologia Anarquista No Ensino O Princípio De Inércia a Partir De Aspectos Históricos

“…Ainda de acordo com Martins (2012), há uma diferença teológica cuja o Deus cartesiano se manifesta apenas durante a criação do universo, dando movimento aos corpos que se mantém em conservação, enquanto o Deus newtoniano se mantém presente podendo diferenciar o movimento relativo ao movimento absoluto, pois "o espaço está preenchido por Deus e é, de certa forma, o órgão sensorial divino" (MCGUIRE, 1978, p. 507 apud MARTINS, 2012.…”

A Theology of Everything

“…In the General Scholium , added to the second edition of the Principia (1713), Newton disclosed that the very foundation of his ideas about the physical world was closely connected with his concept of God. As early as 1660, in discussing space, he suggests that space is not a ‘part’ of God's essential nature, but a secondary ‘effect’ or ‘emanation’ of God's ubiquity and omnipotence 3 . However, almost 20 years later he tried, in the first edition of the Principia to translate his view of space into a non-theological language by describing ‘absolute space’ as something which ‘in its own nature, without relation to anything external, remains always similar and immovable,’ contrary to ‘relative space’ which is some ‘movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces; which our senses determine by its position to bodies.’ 4 Space is ‘absolute’ because it is independent of what it contains, and the traditional connection between matter and space is dissolved.…”