Worldviews by DeWitt Richard

Author:DeWitt, Richard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-03-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

The Development of the Newtonian Worldview, 1700–1900

As with the Aristotelian worldview, the Newtonian worldview is not a static set of beliefs. It developed and changed in the centuries following the 1600s, but throughout the changes, the core elements of the worldview remained steady. Our goal in this chapter is to illustrate some of the developments that took place between roughly 1700 and 1900.

In general, our approach will be to try to convey a flavor of how promising the development of the Newtonian view was during this period, such that, by 1900, it appeared that most of the major questions about the world had been answered within a Newtonian framework. We will look specifically at the development of several of the major branches of science during this period, and end with a discussion of some of the issues still unresolved at the beginning of the 1900s.

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