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What kind of gaps do you mean? As someone who studies mathematics, I feel like this is a vague criticism I've seen some make without any concrete justification.
Not the OP, and he/she mentioned "physical observations" so maybe he/she was only referencing hard sciences like Chemistry or, indeed, Physics, but I am of the same opinion to him/her when it comes to the gap between mathematics and social (for a lack of better word) sciences, which social sciences (and the underlying social component behind them, i.e., us, humans) play a very important role in, well, how the Univers…
Can you elaborate on how Hobbes tried to imitate Euclid's "Elements?"