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Domski, Mary (2022) Newton's Third Rule and the Experimental Argument for Universal Gravity. Routledge Focus on Philosophy . Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-1-032-02036-5 http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20834
@ben_crowell_fullerton Do you agree with the novel interpretation?
@bibliolater I just skimmed the book to satisfy my curiosity about the title. I can't read Latin and don't know enough about the period to have a useful opinion about this sort of thing.
@ben_crowell_fullerton Thank you for your engagement.
@bibliolater For anyone who was wondering what the heck Newton's Third Rule is, no it doesn't refer to the third law of motion. Here's what it says: "Those qualities of bodies that cannot be [augmented or diminished] and that belong to all bodies on which experiments can be made should be taken as qualities of all bodies universally." A lot of the book seems to be about whether the "and" is really an "or."