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CYCLOPADIA: 
OR, A NEW 
UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY 
OF 
ARTS and SCIENCES. 
NEWTONIAN 
EWTONIAN Puitosorny, the doGrine of the uni- 
- verfe, and, Healer eh of the heavenly bodies; their 
laws, affections, s delivered by fir Ifaac Newton. 
The term eo philofophy is applied very differ- 
ently ; whence have fprung divers confufed notions Gane 
to it. 
e authors, under this lier pe ae include the whole: 
o 
corpufcular philofophy confidered as it w flandsc orrected 
duétio ad Philofophiam N Newtonian nam.’ And in this fenfe 
the Newtonian is the fame with the new philofophy, and 
‘ftands contradiftinguifhed to the Cartefian, the Peripate- 
tic, a sg ancient corpufcular 
Others, by Newtonian philofophy, mean the method or 
order which ‘Gr Ifaac Newton obferves in philofophizing, 
wiz. the reafoning aa drawing of cenclufions directly from 
henomena, exciufive of all previous hypothefes; the be- 
ginning from fim ee principles ; ow flee the firft powers 
le 
d Jaws of nature from a & phenomena, and 
then applying thofe ie ‘8, &c. to account for other things. 
(Se t) E And, in ee fenfe, the Newto- 
» by Newtonian philofophy, mean that in which 
phyfic a Saas are confidered mathematically, and by which 
geometry and mechanics are applied to the folution of phe- 
nomena. In which fenfe, the Newtonian 1s the fame with the 
mechanical and mathematical philofophy. 
Others, again, by Newtoman philofophy, underftand 
that part of phy fical knowledge which fir Ifaac’ Newton 
has handled, improved, and demonttrated, in his ce 
Others, lattly, by Newtonian philofuphy, mean the new 
Vou. XXV. , 
Swahan and Prefton 
New-street Square, London, 
PHILOSOPHY. 
principles Mise fir Ifaac Newton has brought - ae 
y; the new fyftem founded on them; and the new folu- 
tions of elenonen thence deduced ; or that ent diane: 
terifes and sar Saree = philofophy from all others; 
which is the fenfe in which we fhall chiefly confider it. 
a + the hiftory of this ‘philofophy, we have but little to 
fay: it was firft made public in the year 1686, ae - e au 
thor, Ges a fellow of any college, Cambridge i 
the year 1713 republifhed, with confiderable i a 
reaches and fubfituting either m 
plateaa in lieu of nena on, in 
View ; and Maclaurin, in 
his ex sezile ot work: intitled ‘« see Account of fir Ifaac 
Newton’s Philofophical Difcover 
ha gaa the great mer “of this home S 
ith 
the univerfal reception i has 
s fi 
The “ohilofophy itfelf is laid down principally i in the third 
book of :he Principia, The two preceding bocks are taken 
up in preparirg the way for it, aie i ing down fuch prin- 
ciples of mathematics as have the nearell relation to philofo- 
phy: fuch are the laws and conditions of powers. An 
thefe, to sender them lefs dry and geometrical, the author 
iluftratey’ by cea ia philcfopby, relating chiefly to the 
denfity ard refittasce of bodies, » the motion of light and 
founds, a vacuum, 
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