Newtonism en · NOUN
Etymology
From Newton + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Synonym of Newtonianism.
This did not constitute a rejection of Newtonism, for some of the critics claimed that the Newtonian physiologists had not been Newtonian enough because they had not relied on experiments.
2003, Roy Porter, The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science: