The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin

Author:Steven Shapin
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Moreover, in Newton's initial communication of these results to the Royal Society in 1672 he claimed to have ascertained "the true cause" of optical phenomena, and to have done so with certainty:

A naturalist would scarce expect to see the science of [colors] become mathematical, and yet I dare affirm that there is as much certainty in it as in any other part of optics. For what I shall tell concerning them is not an hypothesis but most rigid consequence, not conjectured by barely inferring 'tis thus because not otherwise, or because it satisfies all phenomena . . . but evinced by the mediation of experiments concluding directly and without any suspicion of doubt.

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