Most of today's detailed study was spent making notes on John Worrall's paper The Scope, Limits and Distinctiveness of the Method of "Deduction from the Phenomena": Some Lessons from Newton's "Demonstrations" in Optics. He is the professor who heads up my MSc course and indeed had been at LSE when I was there in the early 1980s, though I didn't actually see much of him at that time.
Much of my currently reading is of a reasonably high academic standard but I was keen to study an academic paper in some detail as part of my prep work for my own study. The main outcome was that I found the paper reasonably straightforward to review and take notes on, which only a couple of very technical arguments that I felt it worth glossing over. I wonder how long a paper like this would have taken him to produce - there are some references to it having been developed over several years. But how much effort would it really have taken? 15 hours a week for a month, two months, six months . . . ?
One of my longer term goals is to publish something in a properly refereed academic journal. Can it really be so hard?
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