Sir Isaac Newton and Metaphysics?

Question

I was just wondering what were his contributions and accomplishments that he made to metaphysics?

Answer 1

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hp/hpgrotiu.htm#newton

Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy

Grotius — Hobbes — Cudworth — Puffendorf — Newton

Section Two: Period of the Thinking Understanding
Chapter I. — The Metaphysics of the Understanding


http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/slbeing.htm#SL98n1_1
Part One of the Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences: The Logic

First Subdivision
VII. BEING

Attraction and Repulsion
§ 98

Newton gave physics an express warning to beware of metaphysics, it is true, but to his honour be it said, he did not by any means obey his own warning. The only mere physicists are the animals: they alone do not think: while man is a thinking being and a born metaphysician. The real question is not whether we shall apply metaphysics, but whether our metaphysics are of the right kind: in other words, whether we are not, instead of the concrete logical Idea, adopting one-sided forms of thought, rigidly fixed by understanding, and making these the basis of our theoretical as well as our practical work. It is on this ground that one objects to the Atomic philosophy.

The old Atomists viewed the world as a many, as their successors often do to this day. On chance they laid the task of collecting the atoms which float about in the void. But, after all, the nexus binding the many with one another is by no means a mere accident: as we have already remarked, the nexus founded on their very nature.

Answer 2

http://www.spaceandmotion.com/metaphysics-sir-isaac-newton.htm