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Newtonism

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Etymology

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From Newton +‎ -ism.

Noun

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Newtonism (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of Newtonianism
    • 2003, Roy Porter, The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science:
      This did not constitute a rejection of Newtonism, for some of the critics claimed that the Newtonian physiologists had not been Newtonian enough because they had not relied on experiments.