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The purpose of this essay is to answer two questions. First,
how did those writing in the 19th century understand the achievements of
Newtonian science? Second, how do their accounts measure up against what
Newton actually did in the Principia and what actually happened in the
post-Newton research period? In particular, I focus on those writing at the
peak of Newtonian science before it came ... read moreto be threatened in the latter part
of the century by discoveries such as the 43 arc second discrepancy in the
motion of the perihelion of Mercury, which was resolved in the transition to
Einstein’s theory of relativity. The accounts that I will consider are those
of Mary Somerville, John Herschel, and John Stuart Mill, who each took
notice of the unprecedented achievements that were being made in science and
decided to form their own accounts of how it was ever
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