Abstract

An interpretation of the opening sections of Isaac Newton's Principia is offered, in support of my contention that what is introduced there is a conceptual framework, constituting the object and formulating the task of rational mechanics, thus mediating a synthesis of mathematics and experiment/observation. I compare this view with the ‘law-constitutive’ solution of Brading (2012) to the ‘problem of bodies’. On this basis, I comment on one of the ‘tensions’ Biener and Schliesser (2017) discern in Newton's writings.

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