Science as we know it really came into existence on July 5, 1687. Sir Isaac Newton published his three volume opus Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, and the world was suddenly and irrevocably different. Sir Isaac provided a framework for thought, a rigorous analysis that included his Laws of Motion, his Law of Universal Gravitation, and a theoretical framework that explained Johannes Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion, which Kepler had derived from analysis of Tycho Brahe's careful observational data.
Newton provided an elegant mathematical framework that not only explained Kepler's Laws, but predicted further scientific advances. It is likely the most important scientific work ever written.
Aretae may be doing that for the political philosophy of Libertarianism. If I had a bit more brains and a bit more of a work ethic, you might read that here. But I don't and I don't, and so get you over there. This is big, important stuff.
He complained when I compared him with Aquinas, and now here I'm comparing him with Newton. But these are Laws of Governing, elegant in their simplicity and pregnant with predictive power. Go, read.
Yes, it's long. So's Newton. Git.
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