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The basic as - sumptions of geologists in the 1820's, whether Hut - tonian or Wernerian, was stated by William Whewell in 1831:

Dictionary of the History of Ideas LEONARD G. WILSON 1968

Social theorists admitted, no doubt, that the methods which had to be applied to the solution of moral and social problems were not precisely New - tonian.

PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN JOHN PASSMORE 1968

Rij = λgij, or Rij - λgij = 0, and since the term Rij represents the ordinary New - tonian gravitation of attraction, the term - λgij repre - sents repulsion, owing to the minus sign.

COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850 LLOYD MOTZ 1968

Olbers was greatly puzzled by the fact that the night sky (when no moon is present) appears as dark as it does instead of as bright as the sun, which, he reasoned, is how it should appear if the basic New - tonian concepts of space and time were correct.

COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850 LLOYD MOTZ 1968

Galileo, and later Huygens, did indeed have the New - tonian principle of relativity, though they could not have realized its Newtonian subtleties at the time.

RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968

The rise of the wave theory, with its ubiquitous aether as the bearer of the waves, brought a threat to the New - tonian principle of relativity, and one that Newton would probably have welcomed.

RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968

Consider the case of a system of coordinates which is conceived as being in stable rotation relative to a system of inertia in the New - tonian sense.

Out Of My Later Years Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1950

"Payne conjures the spirit of Ella ... she's off the charts with Ella-tonian fever.

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