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  1. (1 other version)The freemason who explained Newton: Audrey T. Carpenter: John Theophilus Desaguliers: A natural philosopher, engineer and freemason in Newtonian England. London and New York: Continuum, 2011, xvi+339pp, $39.95 PB. [REVIEW]Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth - 2013 - Metascience 22 (1):181-184.
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  • Archibald Pitcairne and the Newtonian Turn of Medical Philosophy.Sebastiano Gino - 2023 - Journal of Scottish Philosophy 21 (2):211-228.
    Archibald Pitcairne’s medical writings are inspired by Newton’s Principia mathematica, as the Scottish physician assumed Newtonian physics as a model for scientific inquiry that should be applied to other branches of natural philosophy, including physiology and pathology. The ideal of a comprehensive mathematical science was very appealing to late seventeenth-century intellectuals, including physicians. This essay focuses on how Pitcairne tried to implement these ideas. In particular, I argue that Pitcairne’s medical thinking is based on three philosophical assumptions: first, a methodological (...)
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  • (1 other version)The freemason who explained Newton: Audrey T. Carpenter: John Theophilus Desaguliers: A natural philosopher, engineer and freemason in Newtonian England. London and New York: Continuum, 2011, xvi+339pp, $39.95 PB.Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth - 2012 - Metascience 22 (1):181-184.
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  • Mechanics in the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes.Christoph Lehner & Helge Wendt - 2017 - Isis 108 (1):26-39.
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