Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), or formed or discovered by him.
- noun A follower of Newton in philosophy.
- noun A Newtonian reflecting telescope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A follower of Newton.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or his discoveries.
- adjective the philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton; -- applied to the doctrine of the universe as expounded in Newton's “Principia,” to the modern or experimental philosophy (as opposed to the theories of Descartes and others), and, most frequently, to the mathematical theory of universal gravitation.
- adjective (Astron.) a reflecting telescope, in which rays from the large speculum are received by a plane mirror placed diagonally in the axis, and near the open end of the tube, and thrown at right angles toward one side of the tube, where the image is formed and viewed through the eyeplace.
- adjective See Note under
Light .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or relating to Isaac Newton, or his
laws andtheories - adjective physics Of or relating to
classical physics that does not takerelativity into account - noun
scientist supporting Isaac Newton's views on physics and mathematics.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or inspired by Sir Isaac Newton or his science
- noun a follower of Isaac Newton
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Examples
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The Duhemian thesis usually makes its appearance in the context of Duhem's critique of the inductive method (or what he calls the Newtonian method), which rejects any hypothesis about imperceptible bodies and hidden movements and admits only general laws known by induction from observation.
Pierre Duhem Ariew, Roger 2007
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You might be right - but in Newtonian physics, even although much of it fails at 'Buzzcut's' sub-atomic level, if you drop an apple it will still always fall to the ground.
Data Molesters, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Would you say those children also receive "indoctrination" in Newtonian physics?
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It seems Mr. Schroeder is at work on a new story, Sun of Suns, which he calls a Newtonian Space Opera, with wooden ships, pirates and swordfights, but set in a world without gravity.
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It seems Mr. Schroeder is at work on a new story, Sun of Suns, which he calls a Newtonian Space Opera, with wooden ships, pirates and swordfights, but set in a world without gravity.
September 2005 2005
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What we call Newtonian mechanics was accordingly something for which Euler was more responsible than Newton.
Isaac Newton Smith, George 2007
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Thats why we dont call it Newtonian mechanics anymore, we call the repaired version “Classical Mechanics” which is what is taught in schools all over the world today.
Reinike Supports Teaching Creationism at cvillenews.com 2004
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Insofar as the object of this vision is not formalizable, this concept is different from all mathematical concepts of the infinite, especially those involved in Newtonian physics or what Blake sees as the Newtonian vision of the world.
Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001
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Would you call Newtonian physics materialistic because it is based on measurable observations, even though it describes what are to our best understanding very immaterial forces?
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Would you call Newtonian physics materialistic because it is based on measurable observations, even though it describes what are to our best understanding very immaterial forces?
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