Principia Quantica. An annotated counterfactual Newton

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Authors: Alejandro Rivero
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Abstract

The fused Principia text is a piece of historical science-fiction: it asks what it would look like if Newton, while remaining Newton, leaned harder on his polygonal constructions and on the (already interference-like) evidence in the Opticks (Newton’s rings; “fits of easy reflection and transmission”), and then treated the smooth curve as an emergent approximation rather than the foundation. This version include auxiliary documents used in the last phase of the composition.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Quantum Mechanics and Applications Historical Philosophy and Science History and Theory of Mathematics

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
26 February 2026
Language
EN