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Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #214

Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #214

The guest's own work

BookBy the guest

The origins of the wave theory of light (book by Jed Buchwald)

Jed Buchwald

“i once wrote a book on the origins of wave theory of light and that is one of the paradigmatic examples that tom used”— Jed Buchwald

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn

“the thing that he's famous for the structure of scientific revolutions came out in 62 and as you just said it offered an outline”— Jed Buchwald
BookReferencedISBN verified

Micrographia

Robert Hooke

“he had written a book in fact called the micrographia which by the way he used a microscope to make the first depictions of things”— Jed Buchwald
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Principia (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica)

Isaac Newton

“after newton published his great principia i gave him how to do this and then newton of course got ticked off about that”— Jed Buchwald
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Opticks

Isaac Newton

“the great book that he published the optics which he published in 1704 that has just been finished with full annotations and analysis”— Jed Buchwald