ABSTRACT

Newton explores astronomical space, elaborating his laws of motion in doing so by virtue of an already existing calculus, or calculi, which derived originally by a process of abstraction from the facts of the first space of all – the infant’s space of breast, the positions. A Newton then owes his freedom to investigate to a series of derivations from a basic pattern; but that same pattern also imposes a limitation on his freedom in that only such data tend to be regarded by him as will lend themselves to a scheme fitting in with the original basic pattern. But in observer of the stature of Newton, the facts now drawn together by aid of the calculi already in existence can be seen not to be adequately represented by the laws of motion and their representative calculi.