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Ideas & Culture · 1687

Newton's Principia Mathematica

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Newton established a clockwork universe governed by rational forces, seeding Enlightenment faith in reason and directly informing Neoclassicism's belief that art should instruct through orderly, universal principles.

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Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687) · Ellsworth