Newton's Concepts of Force among the Leibnizians

In Mordechai Feingold (ed.), The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe. Cambridge University Press. pp. 244-289 (2017)
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I argue that the key dynamical concepts and laws of Newton's Principia never gained a solid foothold in Germany before Kant in the 1750s. I explain this absence as due to Leibniz. Thus I make a case for a robust Leibnizian legacy for Enlightenment science, and I solve what Jonathan Israel called “a meaningful historical problem on its own,” viz. the slow and hesitant reception of Newton in pre-Kantian Germany.

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Against Barbaric Physics (Antibarbarus Physicus).Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - 1989 - In Roger Ariew & Daniel Garber (eds.), G. W. Leibniz Philosophical Essays. Hackett. pp. 312-320.
Primae veritates.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz & Louis Couturat - 1995 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 100 (1):7 - 30.

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