did so in such a way that it set scientific inquiry on the road of its remarkable advances. It was with Newton above all that theory and experiment were combined in this fertile way, but it was also through Newton that the dualism between the theoretical and empirical aspects of reality was mathematically elaborated and systematically built into the structure of classical physics, in his insistence on clamping down upon the world of contingent events the rigid isotropic framework of absolute mathematical
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