Uncovering the Methodology of the Principia (III): A Brief Chronology of Newton’s Methodological Itinerary

Abstract

In the preceding chapters I have dealt with Newton’s methodology in a systematic rather than strictly chronological fashion. In this brief chapter, I wish to provide a general chronological overview of Newton’s methodological itinerary – thereby summoning together the material we have discussed previously. For this purpose, I shall divide the development of Newton’s methodology in four phases.