The Truth of Newton's Science and the Truth of Science's History: Heroic Science at Its Eighteenth-Century Formulation
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Lecturing on Newtonian mechanics and dynamics around 1800, the natural philosopher John Dalton employed all the standard demonstrations in what had become by then a well-established genre of scientific education. On his tabletop he used oscillating devices, pendulums, balls made of various substances, levers, pulleys, inclined planes, cylinders of wood, lead in water, and pieces of iron on mercury to illustrate phenomena as diverse as gravitation, the “3 laws of motion of Newton,” impulse or the “great law of percussion,” force and inertia, specific gravity, attraction and magnetism. There was nothing extraordinary in what Dalton was doing, first in his Quaker school then at New College in Manchester. The genre of British lecturing focused on Newtonian mechanics had begun in the second decade of the eighteenth century with the travels and publications of Francis Hauksbee, Jean Desaguliers, and Willem s'Gravesande who lectured in the Dutch Republic. Dalton was deeply indebted to their legacy. His terse manuscript notes on his lectures – charred from a fire in 1940 – tell us that in one lecture he used a “machine with mercury, watercork,” and it was intended to illustrate, of all things, the effect on the planets of the “Cartesian Vortices.”
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.068 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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