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Newtonianism

noun
New·to·ni·an·ism | \ n(y)üˈtōnēəˌnizəm \
plural -s

Definition of Newtonianism 

: the doctrine of the universe as expounded in Newton's Principia especially : Newton's mathematical theory of universal gravitation

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