In this monograph, Steffen Ducheyne provides a historically detailed and systematically rich explication of Newton's methodology. Throughout the pages of this book, it will be shown that Newton developed a complex natural-philosophical methodology which encompasses procedures to minimize inductive risk during the process of theory formation and which, thereby, surpasses a standard hypothetico-deductive methodological setting. Accordingly, it will be highlighted that the so-called 'Newtonian Revolution' was not restricted to the empirical and theoretical dimensions of science, but applied...

Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment comprises fifteen new essays by a team of international scholars that reevaluates the characteristics, meaning and impact of the Radical Enlightenment.

This collection examines aspects of the Radical Enlightenment between 1660 and 1825, spanning England, Ireland, the Dutch Republic, France, Germany and the Americas. In addition to dealing with canonical authors and celebrated texts such as Spinoza and his Tractus theologico politicus, authors discuss many less well-known figures and debates from the period. Divided into three parts,...

Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment comprises fifteen new essays by a team of international scholars that reevaluates the characteristics, meaning and impact of the Radical Enlightenment.

This collection examines aspects of the Radical Enlightenment between 1660 and 1825, spanning England, Ireland, the Dutch Republic, France, Germany and the Americas. In addition to dealing with canonical authors and celebrated texts such as Spinoza and his Tractus theologico politicus, authors discuss many less well-known figures and debates from the period. Divided into three parts,...