conferito da Comitato editoriale del Journal of the History of Ideas
- 2013
- “This careful analysis of sources and previous interpretations critiques the view that Newton took
literally the ‘harmony of the spheres’ theory based on full-bore Pythagoreanism.
Instead, in an account written with the excitement of a detective mystery, the author shows that
Newton drew on other kinds of mathematical reasoning,
plus empiricism and mechanism, offering a fresh explanation for the cluster of ideas involved.”
