On the Role of Newtonian Analogies in Eighteenth-Century Life Science: Vitalism and Provisionally Inexplicable Explicative Devices (2014)
In trying to make sense of the multiplicity of Newtonianisms in eighteenth-century natural philosophy, scholarship has been gradually progressing in sophistication and increasing the fine-grained quality of its interpretive categories.1 For my part, I view the Newtonians as dividing into three large groups, which were always in interplay: experimental Newtonians; metaphysical, ideological, methodological Newtonians; andanalogical Newtonians, who combine elements of the first two groups. In what follows I shall focus on the third set, which I believe to be less studied, through a series of cases of ‘analogical Newtonianism’ in eighteenth-century life science. I thereby suggest a revision of Schofield’s “evolutionary taxonomy of eighteenth-century Newtonianisms” (Schofield 1978).
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