Newtonianism matter theory

Henry, J. Occult qualities and the experimental philosophy active principles in pre- Newtonian matter theory. Hist Sci 24 (1986) 335-381. 

Thackray, A. Atoms and powers an essay on Newtonian matter-theory and the development of chemistry. Cambridge (MA) Oxford Harvard Univ P Oxford Univ P, 1970. 326p. 

See Arnold Thackray, Atoms and Powers An Essay on Newtonian Matter Theory and the Development of Chemistry (Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1970), and Robert E. Schofield, Mechanism and Materialism British Natural Philosophy in an Age of Reason (Princeton Princeton University Press, 1970). 

Thackray, Arnold. Atoms and Powers An Essay on Newtonian Matter-Theory and the Development of Chemistry. Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1970. 

Atoms and Powers An Essay on Newtonian Matter-Theory and the... 

John Henry, Occult Qualities and the Experimental Philosophy Active Principles in Pre-Newtonian Matter Theory , History ofScience 24 (1986), 335—81 Keith Hutchison, What Happened to Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution , Isis 73 (1982), 233—53. 

The result of Boerhaave s Calvinist reading of Newton is that Boerhaave s chemistry is influenced by Newtonian matter theory. His ultimate simple corpuscles resemble Newton s solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles created by God in the beginning. Boerhaave defined particles as... 

Thackray, A. (1970). A.toms and Powers. A.n Essaj on Newtonian Matter-Theory and the Development of Chemistry. London 23. It must be remarked that in the 31st Query of the Opticks, fermentation is a result of the forces of attraction and repulsion and not an independent force. Newton argued Now the above-mention d motions are so great and violent as to shew that in Fermentation the Particles of Bodies which almost rest, are put into new Motions by a very potent Principle, which acts upon them only when they approach one another Into pieces, and vanish into Air, and Vapour, and Flame. Newton, I. (1730). Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections Colours of Tight. (4 ed.). London 380. 

On the significance of De natura acidorum to matter theory around 1700, see Anita Guerrini, Newtonian Matter Theory, Chemistry, and Medicine 1690-1713 (Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1983). 

John Freind, Emmenologia (1703), trans. Thomas Dale (London T. Cox, 1729) Guerrini. Newtonian Matter Theory (n. 40), pp. 170-74 cf. Golinski, Chemical Discourse (n. 4) pp. 131-32, who seems unaware of Pitcairne s existence. 

For further discussion of this point, see Guerrini, Newtonian Matter Theory, chapter 4. 

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