Article ID: CBB742917643

José Celestino Mutis’ Appropriation of Newton’s Experimental Physics in New Granada (1761–1808) (2019)

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This paper characterizes José Celestino Mutis’ (1732–1808) appropriation of Newton in the Viceroyalty of New Granada. First, we examine critically traditional accounts of Mutis’ works highlighting, on the one hand, their inadequacy for directing their claims toward the nineteenth-century independence from Spain and, on the other, for not differentiating between Newtonianism and Enlightenment. Next, we portray Mutis’ complex Newtonianism from his own statements and from printed sources, including a variety of works and translations from British, Dutch, and French authors, in addition to a wide range of Newton’s writings, unusual for an eighteenth-century reader in the Americas. Finally, we analyze a salient claim of Mutis’ Newtonianism in order to depict his appropriation and transformation of Newton’s ideas: the characterization of Newtonian experimental physics as a useful science. In so doing, Mutis further developed metaphysical and methodological positions not present in Newton’s works.

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Authors & Contributors
Molina-Betancur, Sebastián
Rosaria Colaleo
Renata Saponara-Boni
Cooper, Andrew
Bassi, Ernesto
Molina-Betancur, Sebastián
Concepts
Newtonianism
Science and society
Physics
Spain, colonies
Experimental physics
Cosmology
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Enlightenment
Places
New Granada (Spanish colony)
France
Colombia
Spain
Italy
Bogotá (Colombia)
Institutions
Universität Cádiz
Royal Society of London
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