Assertion: newton's publication | /r/MadeOf | many attempts
Facets:
value: about methodology
type: OTHER
value: at defending the newtonian method
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: This discussion began immediately with the publication of the Principia, despite the fact that its first edition contained few explicit methodological remarks (Smith 2002: 138–39) and it intensified considerably with the publication of its second edition in 1713, which contained many more remarks about methodology, including many attempts at defending the Newtonian method.