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> simply because we have developed far better ways to express the same thing To be fair, the main reason we don't study Newton's ideas in their original form i
by denton-scratch 4y ago
> simply because we have developed far better ways to express the same thing
To be fair, the main reason we don't study Newton's ideas in their original form is that he wrote in Latin. The second is that he went to rather extreme lengths to make his writing obscure; he was very possessive of his ideas, and didn't want other philosophers pinching them.
Read the Newton Leibniz correspondence.