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The cradle of modern science

18 Jun 2015
Taken from the June 2015 issue of Physics World

Paul Montgomery reviews To Explain the World: the Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg

Illustration of the Newton's cradle toy, with the balls on strings replaced by miniature images of the Earth
More engagement with the tools of philosophy might have helped the author shore up the position of science. (Courtesy: Detlev Van Ravenswaay/Science Photo Library)
Why did Newton’s laws take the form they did? We are so familiar with the three laws of motion

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Paul Montgomery is an applied physicist working for the CNRS at the ICube joint University of Strasbourg/CNRS laboratory in Strasbourg, France, and an amateur philosopher of science, e-mail paul.montgomery@unistra.fr
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