Roger Boscovich–Modern Physical Science Versus Natural Philosophy
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | Roger Boscovich–Modern Physical Science Versus Natural Philosophy |
| Author(s) | Harry Hamlin Ricker |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2020-02-17 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | natural philosophy, unified theory |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"Roger Boscovich–Modern Physical Science Versus Natural Philosophy" is an article by Harry Hamlin Ricker published on 17 February 2020 on Beyond Mainstream.
Ricker surveys Boscovich's Theory of Natural Philosophy, distinguishing the Vienna edition of 1758 from the differently titled Venice edition of 1763 and pointing readers to the earlier studies On Living Forces (1745), Dissertation On Light (1748) and The Law Of Continuity (1754). His central caution is that Boscovich was neither a scientist nor a philosopher in the modern sense: a physicist reading him for a unified field theory as now understood will come away disappointed, and the work has to be read on the terms of natural philosophy instead.