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A Construção lógica do "Estilo Newtoniano" The logical construction of the "Newtonian Style"

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dc.creator Raquel Anna Sapunaru
dc.date 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-08-12T11:21:27Z
dc.date.available 2015-08-12T11:21:27Z
dc.identifier 10.1590/S1516-73132008000100004
dc.identifier 1516-7313
dc.identifier 1980-850X
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/8f53bd532f544bf1a66f1a430b5aa698
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/28952
dc.description O historiador da ciência Isaac Bernard Cohen batizou o novo método de "fazer ciência", criado por Isaac Newton, de "estilo newtoniano". Segundo Cohen, o cerne do "estilo newtoniano"seria a adaptação sucessiva das "construções mentais" - matemáticas - às comparações com a natureza e haveria dinâmica direta entre as "construções mentais" - matemáticas - e os sistemas físicos. Uma das principais características do "estilo newtoniano", portanto, seria primeiramente a matemática e, posteriormente, uma série de experimentos - e não o contrário. Brilhantemente, enquanto escrevia os Princípios Matemáticos de Filosofia Natural, Newton teria concluído que descrever o movimento de planetas e satélites, ou o movimento em geral, com precisão absoluta era imensamente mais complicado do que seus contemporâneos e antecessores poderiam ter pensado. A solução encontrada por ele foi, partindo de simples casos idealizados, passar progressivamente para casos mais complicados, também idealizados, e depois percorrer o caminho oposto, isto é: pelo desmembramento dos casos mais complicados provar os mais simples, embora sempre em direção à verdade.<br>The science historian, Isaac Bernard Cohen named the new method of "making science" created by Isaac Newton by the name of "newtonian style". The central point of this "newtonian style", according to the definition of Cohen himself is the successive adaptation from "mental constructions" - to mathematical - to comparisons with nature. This means that, according to Cohen, a direct dynamic between "mental constructions" - mathematical - and physical systems should exist. For this reason, one of the most important characteristics of the "newtonian style" would be, first, mathematics and, afterwards, a series of experiments - and not the other way round. Newton would have brilliantly concluded, while writing the "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", that, to describe with absolute precision the movement of planets and satellites, or movement in general, was immensely more complicated than his contemporaries and ancestors would have thought. In this way, the solution found by Newton was to start from simple idealized cases, passing progressively to other also idealized but more complicated cases and finally to go to the opposite way, that means, to prove the most simple cases through divisions of more complicated cases, although always in the direction of truth.
dc.language Portuguese
dc.language Spanish
dc.publisher Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação para a Ciência, Bauru: Faculdade de Ciências, UNESP
dc.relation http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-73132008000100004
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1516-7313
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1980-850X
dc.rights CC BY-NC
dc.source Ciência & Educação, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 55-66 (2008)
dc.subject Newton
dc.subject Método
dc.subject Matemática
dc.subject Estilo newtoniano
dc.subject Newton
dc.subject Method
dc.subject Mathematics
dc.subject Newtonian style
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title A Construção lógica do "Estilo Newtoniano" The logical construction of the "Newtonian Style"
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